West Morris Regional Board of Education v. Sills

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Weintraub, C. J.

Plaintiffs sought a declaration that a statute providing for free transportation of children to private schools was unconstitutional. The principal attack was two-fold: (1) that the statute violated the establishment clause of the church-state provision of the Eirst Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and (2) that the statute discriminated arbitrarily among pupils attending private schools, in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The trial court found against plaintiffs as to the…