Religious holiday songs prohibition ruling [3rd Circuit]

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Religious holiday songs prohibition ruling [3rd Circuit]

November 24, 2009 02:37:00 pm

Stratechuk v. Board of Education, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, November 24, 2009 [holding that a school district's policy prohibiting the performance of religious holiday songs does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the US Constitution].

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