Legal Opinion
Board of Education v. Allen
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 28, 1959PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Chief Judge Conway.
The individual respondents in the first of these eases are three teachers, a school clerk and a principal in the New York City school system who refused, when questioned by petitioner-appellant, Superintendent of Schools of the City of New York, to identify other school personnel as past or present members of the Communist party. All admitted past, but denied present membership in the Communist party themselves. For their refusal to answer the questions the Superintendent suspended them from their employment and instituted disciplinary action designed to terminate their…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Bullock v. . CooleyNew York Court of Appeals · 1919
- Ross v. WilsonNew York Court of Appeals · 1955
- Matter of Levitch v. Board of EducationNew York Court of Appeals · 1926
- Matter of Hughes v. Bd. of Higher Educ., City of NyNew York Court of Appeals · 1955
- Nestler v. Board of ExaminersNew York Supreme Court · 1948
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3Cited by40 opinions
- Charles James v. The Board of Education of Central District No. 1 of the Towns of AddisonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1972
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- Booker v. Board of Education of City of PlainfieldSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1965
- Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc. v. Department of Environmental ConservationNew York Court of Appeals · 1988
- Julian C. Taylor v. New York City Transit Authority and Civil Service Commission of the City of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1970
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