Hines v. Valenzuela

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• leaving open the question of “whether a suit for nominal damages alone is a sufficiently justiciable controversy under Article III”
• noting former holding that a “school failed to establish mootness because it did not adopt a policy formally prohibiting the use of churches for graduation”
• listing considerations of coercion as whether there was “religious activity in which performers or audience members had to partake,” whether there was prayer, whether anyone passed out religious literature, and whether the event took place in a church sanctuary
• listing considerations of coercion as whether there was “religious activity in which performers or audience members had to partake,” whether there was prayer, whether anyone passed out religious literature, and whether the event took place in a church sanctuary
• “The reasonable observer is aware of a situation’s history and context and encompasses the views of adherents and non-ad- herents alike.”
• “The reasonable observer is aware of a situation’s history and context and encompasses the views of adherents and non-ad- herents alike.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).