Christian D. Payne, V. Weyerhaeuser Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding “the unique tradition articulated in Marsh inapposite” in the context of “the school board . . . an integral part of the public school system”
• considering “what actually takes place at meetings of the school board”
• finding excessive entanglement where “[t]he school board decided to include prayer in its public meetings, chose which member from the local religious community would give those prayers, and ... had the school board president himself compose and deliver prayers to those in the audience”
• “As far as Marsh is concerned, there are no subsequent Supreme Court cases. Marsh is one-of-a-kind.”
• same for practice of school board to open meetings with prayer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).