Dowd Scheffel filed a Supreme Court amicus brief on behalf of the Military Order of the Purple Heart in an important First Amendment case concerning a World War I veterans memorial that has stood in Maryland for over 90 years. Known as the Bladensburg Peace Cross, the memorial was erected to remember 49 men from Maryland who served their country and sacrificed their lives in that service during World War I. The case pits the long-standing memorial against the American Human

Dowd Scheffel, with Matthew Dowd as lead counsel, filed an amicus brief in Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission v. American Humanist Association on behalf of Major General Patrick Brady and Veterans Groups Erecting and Maintaining War Memorials. The case, known as the Peace Cross case, asks whether a war memorial violates the First Amendment’s establishment clause merely because it is in the shape of a cross. The case has been dubbed one of the most imp