Legal Opinion
Sloan v. Lemon
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 25, 1973No. 72-459PublishedCited by 145 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Powell
On June 28, 1971, this Court handed down Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U. S. 602, in which Pennsylvania’s “Nonpublic Elementary and Secondary Education Act” was held unconstitutional as violative of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. That law authorized the State to reimburse nonpublic, sectarian schools for their expenditures on teachers’ salaries, textbooks, and instructional materials used in specified “secular” courses. The Court’s ruling was premised on its determination that the restrictions and state supervision required to guarantee that the specified aid would benefit only the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Lemon v. KurtzmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Everson v. Board of Ed. of EwingSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Walz v. Tax Comm'n of City of New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Lemon v. KurtzmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Tilton v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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3Cited by145 opinions
- United States v. BookerSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
- County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties UnionSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Williams v. LaraTexas Supreme Court · 2001
- Stone v. GrahamSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Mueller v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
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