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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...