Legal Opinion
Roark v. South Iron R-1 School District
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 16, 2009No. 08-1847PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Chief Judge.
For some thirty years, school officials at South Iron Elementary School in Iron County, Missouri, permitted representatives of Gideons International to distribute Bibles to fifth grade students in the classroom, during the school day, in the presence of a teacher or school administrator. In February 2006, parents of several elementary school students commenced this action against the School District, members of the Board of Education, and school officials (referred to collectively as “the District”), alleging that this practice violated the Establishment Clause of the First…
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