Rutherford Attorneys Ask Appeals Court to Re-Visit Case of Football Coach Prohibited from Bowing Head During Team’s Pre-Game Prayer
The Rutherford Institute has issued this press release. It begins:
Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have filed a petition for re-hearing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in the case of a football coach who was prohibited by school officials from silently bowing his head or “taking a knee” while his players offered a pre-game prayer. Institute attorneys, acting as co-counsel for football coach Marcus Borden, are asking the Third Circuit to revisit the recent ruling of a three-judge panel of the court, which held that Borden’s expressive conduct is not protected by the First Amendment.