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Mason Cathedral v. City of Boston

No. 00cv11836, (E.D. Mass., filed September 12, 2000).


Issues: First Amendment, Religious Expression

 

Action: Representing Mason Cathedral Church of God in Christ in a lawsuit claiming that the City of Boston violated the church's First Amendment rights when it removed city-paid counselors from the church's summer day camp program because of voluntary prayer.


Status: Case filed September 12, 2000.

 

Selected Legal Documents

 

Complaint (September 12, 2000)

 

Selected Articles

 

Jeff Jacoby. "Punished for Praying in Boston". Boston Globe, August 19, 1999.

 

"Keep the Faith." The Wall Street Journal, August 27, 1999, p. W13

 

"Keeping the Faith." The Wall Street Journal, August 2, 2000, p. A22.

 

Curt A. Levey, "Hopes for a New Year: Charitable Choice." Legal Times, December 18, 2000.

 

Michael P. McDonald. "For Charitable Choice." National Review Online, May 2, 2001.

 

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