Suit Against Air Force Academy Dismissed

October 28, 2006

Author: Lara Jakes Jordan

Source: The Washington Times

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20061027-112923-9536r.htm

A federal judge yesterday threw out a lawsuit against the U.S. Air Force that contended evangelical Christian values were illegally pushed on Air Force Academy cadets.

U.S. District Judge James A. Parker said the academy graduates who filed suit could not claim their First Amendment rights were violated because they no longer attended the academy.

Moreover, the judge in Albuquerque, N.M., said the group failed to give specific examples of which cadets were harmed or when.

"Without that personal link or connection to future misconduct, plaintiffs have simply not shown that they will suffer an injury in fact that is both concrete and particularized and actual or imminent," Judge Parker wrote.