(December 15, 2014 at 10:08 pm)Heywood Wrote:(December 15, 2014 at 3:28 pm)Beccs Wrote: I sense a lawsuit coming up . . .
On what grounds? AA is a faith based group and the courts themselves compel people to attend AA meetings.
Increasingly being struck down on constitutional grounds.
http://ffrf.org/legal/item/14012-court-o...tion-in-aa
Quote:Recent trends make clear that the coercion test is the proper vehicle for analyzing claims by prisoners or probationers that they are being forced to attend Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous meetings under the threat that they will be punished or that some benefit or right will be withheld if they do not participate. See Kerr, 95 F.3d at 480; Warner v. Orange County Probation Dept., 115 F.3d. 1068 (2nd Cir. 1997); Bobko v. Lavan, 157 Fed. Appx. 517, 518 (3rd Cir. 2005) (unpublished disposition) (case dismissed where secular alternative available to defendant, court said: “The government violates the First Amedment's Establishment Clause when it requires a prisoner to participate in a drug or alcohol rehabilitation program with a religious component”); Munson v. Norris, 435 F.3d 877, 880 (8th Cir. 2006).
