Legal Opinion
Freiler v. Tangipahoa Parish Board of Education
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 19, 1999No. 97-30879, 98-30132PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:
Parents of children in the Tangipahoa Parish Public Schools brought this suit to enjoin their school board from mandating that a disclaimer be read immediately before the teaching of evolution in all elementary and secondary classes. The district court held that the disclaimer constituted an establishment of religion in violation of the First Amendment. We affirm.
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The teaching of evolution has created controversy for many years in the Tangi-pahoa Parish Public Schools (“TPPS”). Following a failed attempt to introduce creation science into the Tangipahoa curriculum as…
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