9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Aug. 24, 2017
Coach can’t pray on field after game, 9th Circuit rules
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a high school football coach does not have a First Amendment right to pray publicly on the fifty-yard line immediately after games.
A public high school football coach does not have the right to pray on the field immediately after school games, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.
For a unanimous panel, Judge Milan D. Smith Jr. wrote that Joseph A. Kennedy, a former football coach at a Seattle area high school, was not discriminated against for free speech when his school district directed him to stop praying publicly on the 50-yard line at the ...
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