This holiday season, the 18-foot menorah that has gone up on government property in Poughkeepsie, New York since 1990, may return again this year, a state appellate court ruled yesterday. But no public money may be used in to aid in its construction or removal.
The decision by the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court upheld the bulk of a ruling issued in December by acting Supreme Court Justice James D. Pagones. Four city residents had filed a lawsuit claiming no religious symbols should be permitted on government property and that public money should not be spent on such a project.
Read the decision here.
