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35 Regent U. L. Rev. 295 (2022-2023)
Personal Foul - Encroachment: How Kennedy v. Bremerton School District Blurs the Line between Government Endorsement of Religion and Private Religious Expression

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PERSONAL FOUL - ENCROACHMENT: HOW KENNEDY
V. BREMER TON SCHOOL DISTRICT BLURS THE LINE
     BETWEEN GOVERNMENT ENDORSEMENT OF
  RELIGION AND PRIVATE RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION

                    Mallory B. Rechtenbach*

                      TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
I.  BACKGROUND
    A.  Establishment Clause Doctrine
       1.  The Original Understanding of the Establishment Clause
       2.  Modern Establishment Clause Jurisprudence
    B.  The Role of Freedom of Speech as Applied to Public Employees
    C.  The Forgotten Free Exercise Clause
    D.  The First Amendment Rights of Public-School Teachers
       1.  Kennedy v. Bremerton School District
       2.  The Ninth Circuit's Categorical Ban on Demonstrative
       Expression by Teachers When in View of Students
II. ANALYSIS
    A.  Categorical Ban on Demonstrative Expression      Violates a
        Teacher's Right to Freedom of Speech
        1. Teachers Don't Forfeit All First Amendment Rights at the
        Schoolhouse Gate
        2. The  Categorical Approach Would Permit  Government
        Officials to Engage in Wholesale Viewpoint Discrimination
        3. The Ninth Circuit's Overly Broad Reading of Garcetti Has
        Been Explicitly Rejected by the Supreme Court
    B.  The  Establishment Clause Does  Not  Require  Personal
        Demonstrative Religious Expression by Public Employees to be
        Suppressed
        1. An Actual Establishment Clause Violation, Not Mere Fear of
        a Violation, Is Required to Provide an Adequate Justification to
        Restrict Speech
        2. Private Religious Demonstrative Expression Is Permitted
      Under the Original Public Meaning of the Establishment Clause
      and Distinguished from the Formal Religious Activity in Lee and
      Santa Fe

      First Year Lawyer Fellow, Alliance Defending Freedom; J.D., University of
Nebraska College of Law, 2020.

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