Posted on 11/11/2022 7:52:34 AM PST by Twotone
Boston has agreed to pay $2.1 million in legal fees and other expenses after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the city for refusing to allow a Christian flag to fly outside City Hall.
The settlement included an agreement to pay Harold Shurtleff and his Camp Constitution non-profit for legal costs incurred during the dispute.
“We are pleased that after five years of litigation and a unanimous victory at the U.S. Supreme Court, we joined with Hal Shurtleff to finally let freedom fly in Boston, the Cradle of Liberty,” Liberty Counsel Chairman Mat Staver, whose organization represented Shurtleff, said in a statement.
“The Christian flag case has established significant precedent, including the overturning of the 1971 ‘Lemon Test,’ which Justice [Antonin] Scalia once described as a ‘ghoul in a late night horror movie.’ The case of Shurtleff v. City of Boston finally buried this ghoul that haunted the First Amendment for 51 years,” he added.
The city’s policy stated that the flagpole was open to all organizations. Between 2005-2017, the city approved 284 flag raisings with no denials. However, in 2017, Shurtleff’s group was denied its request to fly the flag on Constitution Day and Citizenship Day because it was a Christian flag.
The case was lost in four lower court cases before the Supreme Court accepted it. Justices ruled 9-0 in May that the denial was unconstitutional under the First Amendment Speech Clause.
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Bravo!
Excellent.
Ya gotta make it so these anti-Christians just back off...they’ll only do that if they have to pay the court costs.
Where does the 2 mil go ?
Lawyers ?
I vote to a pro-life charity ?
They spent the money before they ever got the award.
Well done!
My only problem with this is it’s the taxpayers who are paying. These officials should be paying out of their own pockets.
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Thank you!!!!
Almost every time you get good news from the courts you can thank Donald Trump for his appointments.
Sounds like the attorneys got wealthy over this litigation.
I worked on a case similar to this... The attorneys had an sgreement to get 40% of the settlement from their client.
In addition the court awarded the attorneys their fees.
The 40% was $23 million from the client and the attorneys took the $20 million from the court awarded fees. The collected twice....
The attorneys walked away with $43 million. Crooks!
My only problem with this is it’s the taxpayers who are paying. These officials should be paying out of their own pockets.
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I agree, but the taxpayers need to be more careful who they’re voting for!
Almost every time you get good news from the courts you can thank Donald Trump for his appointments.
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Amazing how many conservatives already seem to have forgotten that important fact.
The left wants to eliminate Christianity. Once in a while their efforts fail.
I would say that our legal system (It is NOT a "justice system) is broken, but this is exactly how the powers that be want things to be.
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