Opinion ID: 786422
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Denial of Invitation to Establish Guidelines

Text: 29 Finally, the Board complains that the district court erred in enjoining the entire BEM program without articulating legal guidelines for the structuring and teaching of [Bible study courses] and afford[ing] each party the opportunity, if they should so elect, to submit plans, policies, and curricula changes in accordance with such guidelines. (Appellants' Brief at 20). The provision of guidelines by a federal court would, however, amount to the rendering of an advisory opinion, a practice that is beyond our Article III authority. United States Nat. Bank of Or. v. Indep. Ins. Agents of Am., Inc., 508 U.S. 439, 446, 113 S.Ct. 2173, 124 L.Ed.2d 402 (1993).