Lee v. Weisman was a landmark United States Supreme Court case decided in 1992. The case concerned a middle school in Rhode Island that had invited a rabbi to give an invocation and benediction at its graduation ceremony. The Court ruled that this practice violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, which prohibits the government from establishing or advancing religion. The Court held that the prayers were not neutral or nonsectarian, and that the school district's involvement in the practice amounted to state sponsorship and coercion of religion. This decision established that schools may not sponsor clerics to conduct even nondenominational prayer, and was the first major school prayer case decided by the Rehnquist Court.