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After five years of litigation and an unanimous 9-0 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the city of Boston agreed to pay a $2.125 billion free adviser for lawyer fees and costs for discrimination against the unconstitutional religious perspective of the Christian flag.
Shurtleffv. At Cityof Boston, Liberty Advisor represents Boston resident Hal Shurleff and his Christian civic organization, Camp Constitution. Shurtleff and Camp Constitution first asked the city for permission to commemorate the “public forum” Constitution Day and Citizenship Day (September 17) and the Civic Community of the Civic Community to the City of Boston in 2017, Massachusetts religious tolerance, the judicial governance of the U.S. Constitution, and rules of law, with the “public forum” Boston City Hall flagpole. For 12 years from 2005 to 2017, Boston approved the attack on 284 flags by civilian organisations, without denying its flagpole designation as a “public forum.” However, city officials have rejected an application for the 2017 Camp Constitution to raise the Christian flag on Constitution Day.
The policy said the flagpole is open to all applicants, but the city of Boston denied the application for Hal Shululuff on the sole reason the application called the flag a “Christian” flag. If the application had used other secular language, Boston would have allowed the request.
After four lower court losses, the US Supreme Court ruled 9-0 on May 2, 2022. He said the denial of the Boston flag was unconstitutional discrimination based on the First Amendment’s speech language provisions.
Shurtleff’s Justice was a 1971 Supreme Court case, Lemonv. It unanimously rejected Boston’s claim that religious perspectives must be censored under Kurtzman. On June 27th, in the case of Director Kennedy, Judge Gorsuch pointed to Shurlev as the basis for overturning lemon. The so-called “lemontest” caused considerable damage to the First Amendment’s freedom of speech, freedom movement, and establishment provisions.
The Christian flag finally flew on the flagpole of the Boston City Hall Plaza Public Forum on August 3rd, with enthusiastic crowds cheering to celebrate the first day without unconstitutional perspective discrimination.
Matt Staber, founder and chairman of Liberty Advisor, said, “We are pleased to have worked with Hal Schultorf to finally fly freedom in Boston, the “cradle of freedom.” The Christian Flag Incident established an important precedent, including the overturning of the 1971 “Lemon Test.” Shurtleffv. The Cityof Boston case finally fills the ghoul that plagued the First Amendment for 51 years. ” {eoa}
For more information about the case, please visit www.lc.org/flag.
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