Freethought Society, Of Greater Philadelphia v. Chester County

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• concluding that \the articulation of a legitimate secular purpose for declining to remove the plaque in 2001 would satisfy the first prong of Lemon\ (emphasis added)
• commenting that \phrases such as ‘ln God We Trust’ and ‘God save the United States and this Honorable Court’ are non-sectarian and would not be used as prayer themselves\
• applying Lemon (as well as separate endorsement test) and holding Ten Commandments plaque did not violate Establishment Clause
• dismissing in a footnote the argument that plaintiffs who viewed religious plaque at courthouse occasionally while conducting official business there lacked standing as “not . . . convincing”
• “[T]he purpose prong of Lemon only requires some secular purpose, and not that the purposes ... are exclusively secular.”
• Ten Commandments plaque, donated in 1920, on wall of Chester County Courthouse

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