Us Supreme Court Court September 2001 Judgments

Brown Vs. Gilmore

Court: US Supreme Court

Brown v. Gilmore - 533 U.S. 1301 (2001) OCTOBER TERM, 2000 Syllabus BROWN ET AL. v. GILMORE, GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR INJUNCTION No. 01A194 (01-384). Decided September 12, 2001 The application of Virginia public school students and their parents for an injunction against enforcement of a Virginia statute requiring public schools to observe a "minute of silence" each schoolday, pending this Court's disposition of their petition for certiorari, is denied. Applicants, who claim that the statute establishes religion in violation of the First Amendment, have been unsuccessful in their repeated attempts to obtain injunctive relief from both the District Court and the Court of Appeals and in their attack on the statute's merits. The All Writs Act, this Court's only authority to issue an injunction against enforcement of a presumptively valid state statute, is appropriate only if the legal rights at issue are indisputably clear, Ohio Citizens for Responsible En...