Legal Opinion
Wiest v. Mt. Lebanon School District
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided May 22, 1974No. Appeal, 158PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Jones,
On April 26, 1973, a complaint in equity was filed by fifty-four plaintiffs seeking to enjoin the Mt. Lebanon School District from including an invocation and benediction at the graduation ceremonies of Mt. Leba*169non High. School scheduled for June 12, 1973.1 Ten days earlier at a regular public meeting of the Board of Directors of the School District a commencement program which provided for an audible invocation and benediction had unanimously been adopted. The case was submitted as a case stated to a specially convened three-judge court sitting en banc.…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Roe v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Cantwell v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- McGowan v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. BarnetteSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Everson v. Board of Ed. of EwingSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
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3Cited by61 opinions
- Sweeney v. TuckerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
- Malnak v. YogiCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1979
- Western Pennsylvania Socialist Workers 1982 Campaign v. Connecticut General Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1986
- Consumers Education & Protective Ass'n v. NolanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
- Vale Chemical Co. v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1986
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