Patterico's Pontifications

9/25/2006

Volokh Agrees: 9th Circuit Decision Preventing “Religious Services” in a Library Meeting Room Is Incorrect

Filed under: Civil Liberties,Constitutional Law,Court Decisions — Patterico @ 6:01 am



It appears that, like me, Eugene Volokh disagrees with the recent Ninth Circuit decision allowing a library to exclude “religious services” from activities allowed in a library’s public meeting room:

Here’s the key excerpt from near the start of Judge Karlton’s concurrence in Faith Center Church v. Glover, a case in which the majority concludes (based on a more plausible argument, though one I think is still ultimately mistaken) that a library may exclude “religious worship” from a policy that opens library rooms broadly to “meetings, programs, or activities of educational, cultural, or community interest”:

Since Prof. Volokh is a genuine First Amendment scholar, I take some solace in his opinion.

2 Responses to “Volokh Agrees: 9th Circuit Decision Preventing “Religious Services” in a Library Meeting Room Is Incorrect”

  1. Time has come to clean up the mess of the 9th circut court its the worse appwalsa court in the nation and nations most overturned court as well

    krazy kagu (e70d3d)

  2. I don’t know if I could ever be a lawyer, nevermind a lawyer in the Ninth Circus. Talk about faith in the system.God Bless you guys out there.

    paul from fl (001f65)


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