Finley v. National Endowment for the Arts

In Finley v. National Endowment for the Arts, 100 F.3d 671 (9th Cir. 1996), rev'd, 524 U.S. 569 (1998), the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a decision of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that had ruled it to be unconstitutional for a government agency to consider "decency and respect" for American values when spending taxpayer money on the arts.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision came too late to affect the funding.