Legal Opinion
Board of Ed. of Westside Community Schools (Dist. 66) v. Mergens
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 4, 1990No. 88-1597PublishedCited by 557 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
This case requires us to decide whether the Equal Access Act, 98 Stat. 1302, 20 U. S. C. §§ 4071-4074, prohibits Westside High School from denying a student religious group permission to meet on school premises during noninstructional time, and if so, whether the Act, so construed, violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
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Respondents are current and former students at Westside High School, a public secondary school in Omaha, Nebraska. At the time this suit was filed, the school enrolled about 1,450 students and included grades 10 to 12; in the 1987-1988 school year, ninth…
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