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Supreme Court Declines To Take Case Of High School Football Coach Fired For Praying After Games

Ashe Schow

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined, for now, to take up a case involving a Washington state high school football coach who was fired after praying silently following a game.

Coach Joe Kennedy asked the Supreme Court to reverse a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that stated the school district had the right to fire him because students and fans could see him when he would take a knee and silently pray after games:

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