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Article: Appeals court hears AU arguments in prison ministry case.(Americans United)
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- Church & State
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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A federal appeals court recently heard oral arguments in Americans United's challenge to a taxpayer-funded fundamentalist Christian prison program in Iowa.
AU Senior Litigation Counsel Alex Luchenitser traveled to St. Louis to argue Americans United v. Prison Fellowship Ministries before the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The case drew national attention when it was announced that retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor would sit on the three-judge panel hearing the argument. Retired justices sometimes fill in on appellate panels, and O'Connor had agreed to do a stint with the 8th Circuit.
The Washington Post ran a story on ...