By ADI News Services
Arizona-based Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys were co-counsel in Rowan County v. Lund, a case the U.S. Supreme Court declined Thursday to take up. The North Carolina case gave the high court the opportunity to uphold its previous rulings pertaining to prayer before public meetings.
It was hoped that the Court would also clear up conflicting rulings on legislator-led prayer in lower courts.
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys were also the attorneys behind the 2014 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Town of Greece v. Galloway that upheld prayer at public meetings, which both a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in the Rowan County case and a recent decision by the 6th Circuit in a different case cited as critical precedent for their decisions in favor of legislator-led prayer policies. The full 4th Circuit, however, later reversed the 4th Circuit panel’s decision, creating a split between the circuits.
