Indiana, Alabama, Alaska, et al.
Amici Curiae
Thomas M. Fisher, Counsel of Record Indiana, Alabama, and Alaska are joined in this brief by eight other States. Thomas M. Fisher has served as Indiana’s solicitor general since July 2005. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on June 8, 2009. Establishment Clause standing doctrine seems to have spiraled out of control. Discussions of standing in Establishment Clause cases draw on “utterly meaningless distinctions which separate the case at hand from the precedents that have come out differently, but which cannot possibly be (in any sane…