Legal Opinion
Braintree Baptist Temple v. Holbrook Public Schools
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided September 18, 1984No. Civ. A. 83-0580-ZPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION
ZOBEL, District Judge.
This case illustrates the admonition articulated in Matthew 22-.21. 1 Plaintiffs are two sectarian schools, their teachers, students, the students’ parents, the churches operating the schools, and a pastor who heads one of the schools. 2 They challenge the constitutionality of the Massachusetts compulsory education laws as applied to them and seek to enjoin enforcement of the laws against them by defendants, the Massachusetts Board of Education (and its chairman and vice-chairman), the Massachusetts Department of Education, and the Commissioner of…
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