Washington, D.C. – Today the United States Supreme Court released six opinions, which did not include the Ten Commandments cases of McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky and Van Orden v. Perry. Liberty Counsel represents McCreary and Pulaski County courthouses in the Kentucky Ten Commandments case. Mathew D. Staver, President and General Counsel for Liberty Counsel, presented oral argument before the High Court on March 2.

After today’s decisions, there are 17 more pending cases and two more Mondays currently scheduled for the Court to release these opinions. The Court generally releases the opinions on Monday beginning at 10:00 a.m. ET. As of last Friday, the Clerk of the Supreme Court indicated that no other opinion days are scheduled for the rest of the month except for the two remaining Mondays. However, the Clerk indicated that may change during the last week of this month if the Court needs extra days to release the decisions.

Some speculated that today would have been an interesting day to release the Ten Commandments decisions. Today is the Jewish holiday known as Shavout. Shavout means the Festival of Weeks and occurs seven weeks after Passover. In modern time, Shavout is celebrated as a commemoration of God delivering the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mt. Sinai, which according to the Jewish celebration, was 3,451 years ago today. Although the decision was not handed down today, it will certainly be delivered within the next few weeks.

Liberty Counsel has prepared a special web site regarding the Ten Commandments cases. DefendTheTen.org contains all of the briefs submitted on the case, along with other information.