| Board of Trustees of Scarsdale v. McCreary | |
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| Argued February 20, 1985 Decided March 27, 1985 | |
| Full case name | Board of Trustees of the Village of Scarsdale, et al. v. Kathleen S. McCreary, et al. |
| Docket no. | 84-277 |
| Citations | 471 U.S. 83 (more) 105 S. Ct. 1859; 85 L. Ed. 2d 63; 1985 U.S. LEXIS 194 |
| Argument | Oral argument |
| Opinion announcement | Opinion announcement |
| Case history | |
| Prior | McCreary v. Stone, 575 F. Supp. 1112 (S.D.N.Y. 1983); 739 F.2d 716 (2d Cir. 1984) |
| Holding | |
| Judgement of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is affirmed as per an evenly split Court. Due to ambiguity in the lower court's decision, it is unclear whether the Village is obliged to display a privately-sponsored nativity scene on public land or if it may adopt neutral rules permitting the exclusion of the nativity scene. | |
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| Case opinion | |
| Per curiam | |
| Powell took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. | |
| Laws applied | |
| U.S. Const. amend. I | |
Board of Trustees of Scarsdale v. McCreary, 471 U.S. 83 (1985), was a United States Supreme Court case in which an evenly split Court upheld per curiam a lower court's decision that the display of a privately sponsored nativity scene on public property does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.[1]