Legal Opinion
Meek v. Pittenger
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 23, 1975No. 73-1765PublishedCited by 400 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Stewart
Justice Blackmun and Mb. Justice Powell, joined.
This case requires us to determine once again whether a state law providing assistance to nonpublic, church-related, elementary and secondary schools is constitutional under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, made applicable to the States by the Fourteenth Amendment. Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 U. S. 105, 108; Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U. S. 296, 303.
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With the stated purpose of assuring that every schoolchild in the Commonwealth will equitably share in the benefits of auxiliary services, textbooks, and instructional *352material…
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