Holding: Established a three-pronged test to assess whether a law violates the Establishment Clause by examining whether the law has a secular legislative purpose, neither advances nor inhibits religion, and does not foster excessive government entanglement with religion.
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Lemon v. Kurtzman (403 U.S. 602) is a Church & State case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1971. The court held that established a three-pronged test to assess whether a law violates the Establishment Clause by examining whether the law has a secular legislative purpose, neither advances nor inhibits religion, and does not foster excessive government entanglement with religion.