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"ACLU gets damages over portrait; Group also awarded fees in Slidell case"

"ACLU gets damages over portrait; Group also awarded fees in Slidell case": The Times-Picayune of New Orleans today contains an article that begins, "A federal judge on Wednesday agreed with the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana that a decision by Slidell officials to hang a portrait of Jesus on the wall at Slidell City Court was unlawful. It awarded the organization nominal damages as well as attorneys fees for its role in a lawsuit filed last summer. The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle provides the ACLU with $1 in damages and paves the way for the ACLU to collect the fees it incurred when it sued the court, Judge Jim Lamz, the city of Slidell and St. Tammany Parish."

I have posted online at this link yesterday's ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Full post as published by How Appealing on April 17, 2008 (boomark / email).