Lewis v. Board of Education

This motion by the plaintiff challenges the legal sufficiency of the separate defenses.

The plaintiff, as a taxpayer, seeks to forbid the defendant, The Board of Education, from permitting school buildings to be used as assembly places for racial and religious groups,/and to restrain reading from the Bible in public schools. The law which authorizes such readings is attacked as unconstitutional.);

The amended complaint projects three causes of action. The first asserts that the board of education is illegally allowing the use of school buildings “to a large number of distinctively sectarian…