Supreme Court declines Florida prayer loudspeaker case | JQJO

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a Tampa Christian school’s challenge to the denial of a pregame prayer over a stadium loudspeaker, leaving intact a 2000 precedent against student-led prayer at football games. With no noted dissents, the decision preserves an 11th Circuit ruling that loudspeaker remarks at Florida state championships are government speech. The dispute began in 2015 at Orlando’s Citrus Bowl, where the athletics association turned down the request but the teams prayed together before the game; lower courts later rejected the school’s free speech and free exercise claims.