John Satawa v. Macomb County Road Commission

How courts have described this case

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• clarifying the use of the Lemon test in the Sixth Circuit
• “Although it has lost some of its luster, the test from Lemon, as refined by later Supreme Court opinions, guides our Establishment Clause analysis.”
• “Under today’s Lemon test, we ask: (1) whether the government’s predominant purpose was secular .... ”
• “The median, moreover, invites visitors. It contains park benches and is accessible by sidewalk.”
• “The median, moreover, invites visitors. It contains park benches and is accessible by sidewalk.”
• government ... need not indefinitely retain the open character of the facility

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