Supreme Court declines to hear Florida city’s challenge to atheists

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Florida city’s appeal to immediately repel a lawsuit from atheists who contend the city unconstitutionally promoted a prayer vigil following a local shooting spree. Lower courts found that Lucinda Hale and Art Rojas had standing, meaning the legal capacity to sue, as an “offended observer” of the prayer vigil, so they could move ahead with pursuing their claims against Ocala, Fla. Hale and Rojas, members of the American Humanist Association, accused Ocala of violating the First Amendment’s ban on state-established religion during the...