Locke v. Davey

Locke v. Davey
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 2, 2003 Decided February 25, 2004
Full case name	Gary Locke, Governor of Washington, et al., Petitioners v. Joshua Davey
Citations	540 U.S. 712 (more) 124 S. Ct. 1307; 158 L. Ed. 2d 1; 2004 U.S. LEXIS 1626; 72 U.S.L.W. 4206; 17 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 163
Case history
Prior	Davey v. Locke, No. C00-61R, 2000 WL 35505408 (W.D. Wash. Oct. 5, 2000); Reversed, 299 F.3d 748 (9th Cir. 2002); Cert. granted, 538 U.S. 1031 (2003).
Holding
A Washington publicly funded scholarship program which excluded students pursuing a "degree in theology" does not violate the Free Exercise Clause.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Rehnquist, joined by Stevens, O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer
Dissent	Scalia, joined by Thomas
Dissent	Thomas
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. I

Locke v. Davey, 540 U.S. 712 (2004), is a United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of a Washington publicly funded scholarship program which excluded students pursuing a "degree in devotional theology". This case examined the "room ... between the two Religion Clauses", the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause.

Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote the opinion of the court, with Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissenting.