In Re the Marriage of Gary E. Erlandson and Susan Kay Erlandson Upon the Petition of Gary E. Erlandson, and Concerning Susan Kay Erlandson

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• holding that selecting “invocation speakers in a way that favors certain monotheistic religions and categorically excludes from consideration other religions solely based on their belief systems … runs afoul of the Establishment Clause”
• vacating an overbroad injunction and remanding in part so that the lower court could fashion a more narrowly tailored injunction
• striking down county policy of chaplain selection that “categorically exclude[d] certain faiths — some monotheistic and apparently all polytheistic ones — based on their belief systems”
• “We have found no Establishment Clause problems presented when local governments mostly invited Christian volunteer invocation-givers, so long as this was reasonably reflective of the community’s demographics and did not advance a single faith.”
• “The court shall grant summary judgment if the movant shows that there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.” (emphasis added)
• “The trial court’s injunction goes too far and says too much.”

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