Sitting by designation on a 9th Circuit panel, U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton had plenty to say about what he called the "sorry state of the law." The court ruled that while a public library cannot exclude speech merely because it is religious, it may bar actual religious services from being held in its meeting rooms. Karlton sounded off in a separate concurrence on what he sees as the high court's misguided precedents confusing the free speech and establishment clauses of the First Amendment.
September 22, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton is not one for subtleties.
Sitting by designation on a 9th Circuit panel charged with deciding whether a religious group can hold services in a public library, Karlton — who revived the Pledge of Allegiance controversy last year with a decision that struck it down — found plenty more to say about what he called the “sorry state of the law.”
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