The city of Ocala, Fla., had asked the Supreme Court to consider whether a group of atheists had the legal standing to file suit under the Constitution.
In the Florida case, the Ocala police chief organized and promoted a prayer vigil whose attendees included police chaplains.
The judge, in his ruling, applied the so-called "Lemon test," named after a 1971 Supreme Court ruling. Last July, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld the atheists' legal standing to sue the city. "A natural reading of the First Amendment suggests that the Clauses have 'complementary' purposes, not warring ones where one Clause is always sure to prevail over the others," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion in Kennedy.
A majority of the Supreme Court's justices on Monday declined to take the case on those grounds, without commenting on the decision.
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