Cammack’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “932 F.2d at 777. This is undeniably a secular purpose; however, it constitutes an incomplete and highly misleading description of the purpose of the Hawaii statute. 13 Further, the majority assumes that a statute need only have a secular purpose. In fact, that is not enough. A careful analysis of the Supreme Court's decisions concerning the purpose prong of Lemon demonstrates the majority's error. As Justice O'Connor stated, in the course of casting the crucial fifth vote, the purpose prong”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Cammack v. Waihee

2. “N.Y. Times, March 12, 1984, at A17, col. 1. 3 In the context of an Establishment Clause challenge to a different practice, one district court has remarked that Good Friday should be classified among those”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Cammack v. Waihee

3. “historical tradition). Thus, the Sunday, Thanksgiving, and Christmas analogies are inapplicable, even under the majority's analysis. 21 As Justice Holmes told us, the life of the law has been”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Cammack v. Waihee