[citation needed] In 2015, Joseph Kennedy served as assistant football coach at Bremerton High School, where his children attended as students.
Kennedy offered his prayers after the players and coaches had shaken hands, by taking a knee at the 50-yard line and praying "quiet[ly]" for "approximately 30 seconds."
Further correspondence on October 23 made clear that the only option it would offer Kennedy was to allow him to pray after a game in a "private location" behind closed doors and "not observable to students or the public."
The court denied these initial motions on the basis that the district's actions were necessary to avoid violating the Constitution's Establishment Clause.
[2] Kennedy appealed the judgment, and the case eventually proceeded to the Supreme Court of the United States, which considered arguments in April 2022 and released its ruling in June 2022.