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Article: Alabama Supreme Court slips through loophole in commandments case, but conflict rages on. (case of Etowah County Circuit Court Judge Roy Moore)
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- Church & State
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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Ducking a bitter church-state controversy, the Alabama Supreme Court has rejected on technical grounds a legal wrangle over a state judge's posting of the Ten Commandments.
In a Jan. 23 action, Justice Ralph Cook and four others on the bench held that the two cases dealing with Etowah County Circuit Court Judge Roy Moore's courtroom religious practices were "not justiciable."
The court ruled that the lawsuits either did not present a genuine conflict or failed to ask for a remedy that could be provided. The decision in Alabama v. ACLU of Alabama and Moore v. American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama means that Judge Moore can continue to display a hand-carved ...