Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Religion & Law Blogs -> Religion Clause

Religion & Law

: Religion Clause

Taxpayer Lacks Standing To Challenge Church's Use of School; Parent May Have Standing

By Howard M. Friedman

In Henley v. Cleveland Board of Education, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18892 (ND OH, March 3, 2010), an Ohio federal district court held that a local taxpayer lacks standing to bring an Establishment Clause challenge to the practice of a local high school in permitting a church to use the school building for its weekly religious services. The court held that it was unable at this stage of the litigation to determine whether or not a second plaintiff, the mother of a school child, had alleged sufficient injury to her child under the Establishment Clause to have standing.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on March 07, 2010 (boomark / email).