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ADVERTISEMENT 5th Circ. To Allow Judge's Courtroom Prayers Amid Appeal Law360 (July 12, 2021, 7:31 PM EDT) -- The Fifth Circuit has ruled that a local Texas justice of the peace can continue allowing volunteer chaplains to open his court proceedings with prayer while he appeals a federal court ruling that the practice violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment. A three-judge panel of the appellate court determined Friday that Montgomery County Justice of the Peace Wayne Mack had "made a strong showing that the district court erred" when it ordered him in May to stop the pract...
(Photo: Flickr Commons/Joe Gratz) A judge has issued a decree banning a Christian Texas judge from opening his courtroom proceedings in prayer, providing a legal victory to a prominent secular legal organization. The Freedom from Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based nonprofit established to promote a strict separation of church and state, won a challenge to prohibit Judge Wayne Mack, a justice of the peace from an area north of Houston in Montgomery County, from opening his courtroom with non-mandatory chaplain-led prayer. U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt ruled on May 21 in favor of FRF...
(Photo: Flickr Commons/Joe Gratz) A judge has issued a decree banning a Christian Texas judge from opening his courtroom proceedings in prayer, providing a legal victory to a prominent secular legal organization. The Freedom from Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based nonprofit established to promote a strict separation of church and state, won a challenge to prohibit Judge Wayne Mack, a justice of the peace from an area north of Houston in Montgomery County, from opening his courtroom with non-mandatory chaplain-led prayer. U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt ruled on May 21 in favor of...
Judge rules against courtroom prayer program A federal judge in Texas has ruled against a Texas justice of the peace in a suit claiming that he violated the establishment clause by soliciting chaplains to deliver courtroom prayers at the opening of court proceedings. U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt of the Southern District of Texas said the program instituted by Justice of the Peace Wayne Mack impermissibly coerced court attendees into participating, even though signs state that people can leave during the ceremony. (Courthouse News Service, Freedom From Religion Foundation press release, Ho...