Green v. Haskell County Board of Commissioners

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Green v. Haskell County Board of Commissioners

Court| United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Full case name|  James W. Green v. Haskell County Board of Commissioners
Decided| June 8, 2009
Citation| 568 F.3d 784
Case history
Subsequent history| Rehearing en banc denied, 574 F.3d 1235 (10th Cir. 2009); cert. denied, 130 S.Ct. 1687 (2010)
Court membership
Judges sitting| Harris L. Hartz, Terrence L. O'Brien, Jerome A. Holmes
Case opinions
Majority| Holmes, joined by a unanimous panel
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. I

Green v. Haskell County Board of Commissioners, 568 F.3d 784 (10th Cir. 2009),[1] was a First Amendment case concerning the placing of a Ten Commandments monument on public property, an alleged violation of the separation of church and state.

## Facts

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The case involved the presence of a Ten Commandments monument on the Haskell County, Oklahoma Courthouse lawn. Since the lawn is public property, James Green, a local resident, felt that the monument's presence was, ipso facto, a violation of the First Amendment's separation of church and state. With the support of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Green sued in 2004 to have the monument removed.

## Tenth Circuit finding and aftermath

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled in Green v. Haskell County Board of Commissioners that the monument must be removed from the courthouse lawn. Federal Judge Ronald A. White allowed the monument to remain whilst the Haskell county commissioners appealed the Tenth Circuit's decision, but the order for its removal became enforceable when the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear the case on March 1, 2010.[2] As Commissioner Kenny Short put it, "It will have to go. There's no getting around that now."[citation needed]

Though the county employees tasked with preparing the monument for removal were heckled by locals, the monument was eventually moved to the lawn of the American Legion (where it still rests), only a few feet away from the courthouse.[citation needed]

According to the July 7 and July 14 editions of the Stigler News Sentinel, the ACLU, led by Joanne Bell, requested $250,000 in court fees from Haskell County. The Haskell County Board of Supervisors acquiesced, agreeing to pay the $250,000 over a 10-year period.

## See also

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* Stone v. Graham (1980)
* Glassroth v. Moore (11th Cir. 2003)
* Van Orden v. Perry (2005)
* McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union (2005)
* Pleasant Grove City v. Summum (2009)

## References

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1. ^ Green v. Haskell County Board of Commissioners, 568 F.3d 784 (10th Cir. 2009).
2. ^ 130 S.Ct. 1687 (2010).

Other source materials: Stigler News Sentinel of 3/11/2010, 3/18/2010, 7/7/2010 and 7/14/2010.

## External links

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* Text of Green v. Haskell County Board of Commissioners, 568 F.3d 784 (10th Cir. 2009) is available from: CourtListener Google Scholar Leagle
* Case brief
* Americans United press release Archived 2010-04-04 at the Wayback Machine
* ACLU press release linked from US Law.com

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Ten Commandments

Tablets of Stone · Finger of God · Ritual Decalogue

Commandments|

* I am the Lord thy God
* Thou shalt have no other gods before me
* Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
* Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
* Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy
* Honour thy father and thy mother
* Thou shalt not kill
* Thou shalt not commit adultery
* Thou shalt not steal
* Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour
* Thou shalt not covet

Topics|

* Moses
* Biblical Mount Sinai
* Mount Sinai
* Mount Horeb
* Ark of the Covenant
* lid
* Book of Exodus
* The Exodus

In art|

* Descent from Mount Sinai (Sistine Chapel, 1481-1482 painting)
* Moses (c. 1513–1515 sculpture)
* Moses and his Ethiopian wife Zipporah (c. 1645-1650 painting)
* Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law (1659 painting)
* Catholic Total Abstinence Union Fountain (1876)
* Moses (1962 sculpture)
* Moses (1968 sculptures, 3/3)

Media|

* The Ten Commandments (1923 film)
* The Ten Commandments (1956 film)
* Les Dix Commandements (2000 musical)
* The Ten Commandments (2004 musical)
* The Ten Commandments (2006 miniseries)
* The Ten (2007 film)
* The Ten Commandments (2007 film)
* I Am (2010 film)
* The Ten Commandments (2016 film)

Related|

* Joshua
* In Catholic theology
* Tabot
* Alternatives
* 613 commandments
* Seven Laws of Noah
* Great Commandment
* Golden Rule
* Ethics in the Bible

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