RYAN MURPHY v. STATE OF FLORIDA

How courts have described this case

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• striking down town’s “Touch of Italy” festival that included a Roman Catholic mass and stating that Marsh approved a “non-denominational” prayer
• striking down town’s “Touch of Italy” festival that in- cluded a Roman Catholic mass and stating that Marsh approved a “non-denominational” prayer
• “Owning a public forum is one thing, sponsoring a mass is quite another.”
• upholding a factual finding that a local government was conducting a religious mass
• \[E]ven a herd of reindeer and a forest of jumbo candy canes could not neuter a mass--a religious observance that does substantially more than mark the birth of a figure with religious significance.\
• “[E]ven a herd of reindeer and a forest of jumbo candy canes could not neuter a mass — a religious observance that does substantially more than mark the birth of a figure with religious significance.”

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