The majority of judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted Friday to wipe out a 1998 ruling allowing students in a predominantly Mormon community to say prayers at their public high school graduation ceremony and have an 11-judge panel revisit the case. The order to go en banc said little about the rationale for the move. But the record of Doe v. Madison School District tells a tale.
March 23, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
The separation of church and state is a legal battleground as old as the country itself, and the wars continue.
Last year, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals seemingly ended one such skirmish by allowing students in a predominantly Mormon community to say prayers at their public high school graduation ceremony. But that result may be nullified by a technicality.
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