May 7, 2004

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Virginia Military Institute's Prayer Case

By ALYSON KLEIN

Group prayers before evening meals at the Virginia Military Institute, a practice that was declared unconstitutional by a series of federal courts, remain forbidden after a divided U.S. Supreme Court declined to rehear the case late last month.

The court decided to let stand a ruling issued in April 2003 by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which had unanimously upheld a trial-court judge's decision that the prayers violated the constitutional

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