Judge John E. Jones III
has issued his ruling in the Dover, PA intelligent design case--Dover's ID Policy violates both the Lemon Test and the endorsement test, and so the Dover Area School District must discontinue reading the statement at the beginning of the evolution unit about Intelligent Design and the availability of
Of Pandas and People in the library. The decision covers much broader ground than this, and though the orders are only directed at DASD, this decision is likely to be influential in much the way
Judge Overton's McLean v. Arkansas creation science decision was in 1982. Ed Brayton has the
text of the decision and
some key quotes and commentary up at Dispatches from the Culture Wars.
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