Legal Opinion
Herndon ex rel. Herndon v. Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Board of Education
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided July 11, 1996No. 95-2525PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge ERVIN wrote the opinion, in which Judge NIEMEYER and Senior Judge BUTZNER joined.
OPINION
ERVIN, Circuit Judge.
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools require as a condition of graduation that high school students perform fifty hours of community service. Two students and their parents sued the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Board of Education, the individual board members, and the system superintendent (collectively “the district”). The plaintiffs charged that the community-service requirement violates the students’ constitutional rights to freedom from…
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Herndon v. Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Board Of EducationCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1996