Legal Opinion
Barnette v. West Virginia State Board of Education
District Court, S.D. West Virginia
Decided October 6, 1942No. 242PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PARKER, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit by three persons belonging to the sect known as “Jehovah’s Witnesses”, who have children attending the public schools of West Virginia, against the Board of Education of that state. It is brought by plaintiffs in behalf of themselves and their children and all other persons in the State of West Virginia in like situation, and its purpose is to secure an injunction restraining the State Board of Education from enforcing against them a regulation of the Board requiring children in the public schools to salute the American flag. They allege that they and…
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