1971—In an opinion by the jurisprudentially rudderless Chief Justice Warren Burger, the Supreme Court in Lemon v. Kurtzman concocts an ahistorical and highly malleable test for Establishment ...

The Texas House passed Senate Bill 10 on Sunday. It now goes back to the Senate for concurrence before advancing to Gov. Greg ...

One of the most influential rulings came in 1971 when the Supreme Court ruled in Lemon v. Kurtzman that constitutional protections requiring the separation of church and state apply to public schools.

To determine what violates the establishment clause, the court carries out a “Lemon test,” originating from the 1971 Supreme Court case Lemon v. Kurtzman.It states that the government can ...

In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court provided these zealots a legal gift, in Lemon v. Kurtzman, holding that, when it came to public expressions of faith, government action must have a secular purpose ...

For decades, the court followed a test it articulated in 1971 in Lemon v. Kurtzman, which held that a government action violates this provision if it lacks a secular purpose, if it has the effect ...

Lemon v. Kurtzman — when considering if government interaction with religion violates the First Amendment. Under the Lemon ...

The law seeks to overturn the 1971 case of Lemon v. Kurtzman, in which the justices ruled the government could not provide funding to nonsecular schools without violating the Establishment Clause.

In the 1971 case Lemon v. Kurtzman, the justices had adopted the following analysis: "First, the statute must have a secular legislative purpose; second, its principal or primary effect must be ...