Legal News: Board of Education prayer ruling

David E. Hoy • Attorney and Counselor at Law

Board of Education members in Cleveland, Ohio, can't pray before their meetings by the Editors at ReligionToday.com March 19, 1999

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled March
18 that the practice is unconstitutional, the Associated Press
said. The ruling, which overturns a lower court's 1996 decision,
says the prayers are similar to those said at high school
graduation ceremonies, which it ruled are an illegal endorsement
of religion. Attorneys for the school board have not decided if
they will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Reprinted with permission from Religion Today, http://www.ReligionToday.com."

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