Legal Opinion
Lemon v. Sloan
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided April 6, 1972No. Civ. A. 71-2223PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JOSEPH S. LORD, III, Chief District Judge.
Plaintiffs brought this suit to declare the Pennsylvania Parent Reimbursement Act for Nonpublic Education 1 (the “Act”) unconstitutional and to enjoin its operation. The Act is challenged as violative of the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This court has jurisdiction of the controversy pursuant, to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 1343(3), 2281 and 2284. Presently before the court are motions of defendant and intervening defendants to dismiss the complaint for lack of…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Flast v. CohenSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- 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
- Engel v. VitaleSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Sloan v. LemonSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Kosydar v. WolmanDistrict Court, S.D. Ohio · 1972
- Rechsteiner v. Madison Fund, Inc.District Court, D. Delaware · 1977
- Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. NyquistDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1972
- Johnson v. American Aviation Corp.District Court, D. North Dakota · 1974
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