Santa Fe Independent School District
Petitioner
Jay Alan Sekulow, Counsel of RecordThe Santa Fe Independent School District is located near Houston, Texas. In October 1995, it adopted a policy that, among other things, allowed its high school students to select a classmate to deliver a "message or invocation" prior to home football games. Several parents and students in the district filed suit, alleging that the school policy was a violation of the First Amendment-mandated separation of church and State. A Federal district court agreed, as did the U.S. Fifth Circuit. Santa Fe appealed the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, which granted certiorari on November 15,…
