The Court held that the First Amendment
did not prohibit New Jersey from spending
tax-raised funds to pay the bus fares of
parochial school pupils as a part of a general
program under which it paid the fares of …
Petitioner parents applied for a writ of
certiorari after the Court of Appeals of New
York granted a judgment that upheld the school
board's authority to use prayer in the public
schools on the condition that no …
The Court concluded that state laws
requiring readings from the Bible at the
beginning of the school day amounted to
requiring religious exercises and such exercises
were being conducted in direct violation of the
…
In a consolidated case from the United
States District Court for the Eastern District
of Pennsylvania, and from the United States
District Court for the District of Rhode Island,
appellant citizens and taxpayers …
The parents practiced the Amish and
Mennonite religions and argued that sending
their children to public school after the eighth
grade violated their religious beliefs and
threatened their religious way of life. The …
The Court held that accommodating the
Amish and Mennonite parents' religious
objections to compulsory education after the
eigth grade would not impair the physical or
mental health of the child, result in an …
Petitioners, church and its president,
applied for and received licensing, inspection
and zoning approvals to establish a church
including a ritual of animal sacrifice from
respondent city. In response, an emergency …
Petitioner students brought an action
against respondents alleging First Amendment
violations for respondents' refusal to authorize
payment of the printing costs of petitioners
student publication based on its …
This action arose from a case in which
U.S. Supreme Court held that the Establishment
Clause of the First Amendment barred a city from
sending public school teachers into parochial
schools to provide education to …