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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a Florida Christian school’s challenge to an athletic association's refusal to let them conduct a prayer over the loudspeaker at a championship game.

In an orders list released Monday morning, the Supreme Court denied without comment a request for oral arguments in the case of Cambridge Christian School, Inc. v. Florida High School Athletic Association .

The denial of the certiorari in the case leaves in place an appeals court panel ruling against the school, which had concluded that a loudspeaker prayer constituted government speech.

It is a common practice for Cambridge Christian to have a prayer spoken on a loudspeaker before their sports event. In December 2015, Cambridge Christian and University Christian School played

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