The Center for Inquiry
Amicus Curiae
Daniel S. Pariser, Counsel of Record The Center for Inquiry is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to promoting and defending reason, science, and freedom of inquiry. Daniel S. Pariser is a partner with the law firm Arnold & Porter, where he specializes in product liability, class-action, white-collar, and antitrust litigation. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Respondent as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on August 3, 2009. The government cannot be allowed to circumvent the Establishment Clause with formalistic gestures that fail to accomplish genuine separation between church and State. If the Constitution’s prohibition…