Joseph Kennedy was dismissed from his position as high school football coach for conducting post-game prayers with his students.

But now, after the Bremerton School Board in Washington state has agreed to a settlement, Kennedy is set to receive $1.7 million. He will also be reinstated as coach for the upcoming season, Fox News reports.

“Bremerton School District shall not interfere with or prohibit Kennedy from offering a prayer consistent with the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion,” his attorneys wrote in a court filing, according to records last fall. While some details remain in discussion, the filing also states: “The parties disagree on the specific wording of this portion of the injunction.”

In addition, the filing notes that “Bremerton School District cannot retaliate against or take any future adverse employment action against Kennedy for conduct that complies with the terms of the Court’s Order.”

Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority ruling in the June decision seven years after the events.

“Here, a government entity sought to punish an individual for engaging in a brief, quiet, personal religious observance doubly protected by the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment. And the only meaningful justification the government offered for its reprisal rested on a mistaken view that it had a duty to ferret out and suppress,” Gorsuch wrote. “Religious observances even as it allows comparable secular speech. The Constitution neither mandates nor tolerates that kind of discrimination.”

According to Kennedy’s lawyer, the coach is expected to return to Bremerton to resume his football coaching responsibilities, the outlet reported.

“Mr. Kennedy will be an assistant football coach for Bremerton High School for the 2023 season,” said the school district on its website.

In addition, school officials stated that Kennedy’s lawyers would receive payment in interest-free installments over three fiscal years.

According to the Seattle Times, Kennedy joined the football coaching staff at Bremerton High School in 2008. Initially, he would pray alone at midfield after games, but eventually, students and football players began to join him.

In 2015, Kennedy was suspended by the school district after he allegedly refused to cease giving speeches that contained religious references. In the end, Kennedy’s teaching contract was not renewed by the school.

Following the suspension, Kennedy opted to take legal action, and his lawyers eventually brought the case to the Supreme Court. Kennedy has maintained that the prayers were private acts of faith. However, the school district argued that once students joined in, it constituted a violation of the Constitution’s ban on government officials promoting a religion, but the nation’s highest court disagreed.