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In a suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that the displays—in this case, a Ten Commandments display at the McCreary County courthouse in Whitley City, Kentucky and a Ten Commandments display at the Pulaski County courthouse—were unconstitutional.
McCreary. Find a Court / Circuit Court Clerk by County. McCreary County Courthouse. 1 N. Main St. P.O. Box 40. Whitley City, KY 42653. Get Directions. Office of Circuit Court Clerk. Circuit Court Clerk: Othel King. Phone: 606-376-5041.
Facts of the case. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued three Kentucky counties in federal district court for displaying framed copies of the Ten Commandments in courthouses and public schools. The ACLU argued the displays violated the First Amendment's establishment clause, which prohibits the government from passing laws "respecting ...
1 sty 2009 · McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union (2005) held 5-4 that Ten Commandment displays in Kentucky county courthouses violated the First Amendment's establishment clause.
By virtue of details familiar only to the parties to litigation and their lawyers, McCreary and Pulaski Counties, Kentucky, and Rutherford County, Tennessee, have been ordered to remove the same display that appears in courthouses from Mercer County, Kentucky to Elkhart County, Indiana.
19 paź 2024 · Justice David H. Souter presents the facts of the case, decided 5-4, along with Van Orden v. Perry, on the same day. Here the Court struck down a Kentucky courthouse display of the Ten Commandments as a violation of the Establishment Clause.
27 cze 2005 · In November 1999, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued McCreary County and Pulaski County, Kentucky claiming the public display of the Ten Commandments in county courthouses violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
