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FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION, INC. v. OBAMA

No. 08-cv-588-bbc.

705 F.Supp.2d 1039 (2010)

FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION, INC., Anne Nicol Gaylor, Annie Laurie Gaylor, Dan Barker, Paul Gaylor, Phyllis Rose and Jill Dean, Plaintiffs, v. President Barack OBAMA and White House Press Secretary Robert L. Gibbs, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Wisconsin.

April 15, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Bolton, Boardman, Suhr, Curry & Field LLP, Madison, WI, for Plaintiffs.

Brad P. Rosenberg, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendants.

Geoffrey Surtees, American Center for Law and Justice, New Hope, KY, for Amicus.

OPINION and ORDER

BARBARA B. CRABB, District Judge.

The role that prayer should play in public life has been a matter of intense debate in this country since its founding. When the Continental Congress met for its inaugural session in September 1774, delegate Thomas Cushing proposed to open the session with a prayer. Delegates John Jay and John Rutledge (two future Chief Justices of the Supreme Court) objected to the proposal on the ground that the Congress...

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