SCOTUSBlog's Lyle Deniston reports that in orders today, the Court declined to take up the appeal of an Ohio judge whose Ten Commandments display was ruled unconstitutional by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. In other church-state-related court news from today, Deniston writes:
The Court…took no immediate action on the constitutionality of placing a Christian cross at the roadsite site of the deaths on duty of highway patrolmen (Utah Highway Patrol Association v. American Atheists, 10-1276) and Davenport v. American Atheists (10-1297). In another case involving church-state issues, the Court declined to sort out how far local governments must go, under the federal Religious Land Use Act to allow churches to build new structures in areas of the city not zoned for such uses (San Leandro v. International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, 11-106).
The Supreme Court is set to hear an important religious employment case on Wednesday of this week.
