Italian Crucifix Case Judgment Reached
Posted on | March 9, 2011 by Roger Kiska, J.D. |
The European Court announced today to participating parties in the Lautsi v. Italy case (also known as the Italian crucifix case) that the Grand Chamber had reached a judgment on February 16 and that the judgment will be announced in public by the Grand Chamber on March 18 in Strasbourg. The case made international headlines when the Strasbourg Court ruled that Italy must break with its centuries old tradition of having crosses in its public schools. An unprecedented number of Council of Europe Member States intervened on behalf of Italy. The Alliance Defense Fund acted as a third party on behalf of 33 Members of European Parliament: http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/4037.
I will be attending the announcement in Strasbourg on the 18th and will keep readers posted as to the results of the court’s deliberations.
