Stroock & Stroock & Lavan and Davis, Wright & Tremaine jumped headlong into the issue of religion in schools when they filed amicus briefs for clients seeking to ban the distribution of Bibles in a Missouri elementary school.
In a mixed verdict, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit unanimously ruled in Roark v. South Iron R-1 School District, 08-1847, that the school district violated the U.S. Constitution by allowing Gideons International to distribute Bibles to fifth-graders during class.
