For Immediate Release Contact: Sarah Henry, (202) 238-9088, shenry@americanhumanist.org Monica Miller, (202) 238-9088, mmiller@americanhumanist.org (Washington D.C., November 19, 2018) – The American Humanist Association (AHA) and the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), led by AHA Senior Counsel Monica Miller, just filed their Brief in Opposition at the Supreme Court of the United States. Today’s brief opposes the City of Pensacola’s efforts to overturn the freethought organizations’ victory for church-state separation, in which the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals declared that the City’s immense Christian cross towering over Bayview Park violates the Establishment Clause of the First
This post originally appeared on TheHumanist.com. On Friday, the US Supreme Court announced that it would hear arguments from the American Humanist Association regarding the unconstitutionality of a forty-foot-tall Christian cross maintained on public land in Bladensburg, Maryland. This towering cross, which is intended to be a World War I memorial, dominates the center of a busy intersection and is the first thing one sees entering the town. And it’s owned, maintained, and funded by the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission (MNCPPC), a branch of the state government. In the years since the initial filing, the AHA won at every appellate level, and now the case is before the
For Immediate Release Contact: Sarah Henry, 202-238-9088, shenry@americanhumanist.org Monica Miller, 202-238-9088, mmiller@americanhumanist.org (Washington, D.C., November 2, 2018) – Moments ago, the Supreme Court announced that it will hear arguments from the American Humanist Association’s (AHA) legal team regarding the unconstitutionality of the 40-foot-tall Christian cross towering over a busy Bladensburg, Maryland intersection. This will be the AHA Appignani Humanist Legal Center’s first case before the Supreme Court. “We remain confident in our legal position and look forward to presenting arguments to the Supreme Court,” said Monica Miller, senior counsel for the American Humanist Ass
