Lanner v. Wimmer

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BRIMMER, District Judge.

This case presents the question of whether the release-time program of Logan City, Utah, in which its public school students have long been permitted to attend church-operated seminaries for religious instruction during regular school hours, violates the well-established guidelines developed by the Supreme Court concerning the meaning of the Establishment of Religion and Free Exercise Clauses of our Constitution. We echo the words of the Tenth Circuit’s own Judge Alfred P. Murrah who observed in Anderson v. Salt Lake City Corporation, 475 F.2d 29…