Legal Opinion
Andrea Metzl v. Robert Leininger, State Superintendent of Education
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 19, 1995No. 94-2563PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Christians believe that Jesus Christ was crucified on a Friday afternoon in the spring and that he rose from the dead the following Sunday. The crucifixion is commemorated on Good Friday, the resurrection on Easter Sunday. In 1941 Illinois made Good Friday a state holiday; state facilities, including schools (but not colleges or universities), were to be closed on that day. There is no contemporaneous legislative history but in the following year the governor of Illinois explained in a proclamation that Good Friday “is a day charged with special meaning to multitudes…
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