IDAHO
FIRST AMENDMENT - PRAYER IN SCHOOLS
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in 1998 that Madison School District's policy of permitting top students in each senior class to decide whether to include a prayer, a poem, a reading or a musical presentation in graduation speeches was constitutional.
(The
US
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is the largest of the federal circuit courts. It has jurisdiction over
Alaska,
Washington,
Oregon,
Ohio,
Montana,
Nevada,
Arizona,
Hawaii
, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands as well as
California
.)