Legal Opinion
Smith v. Board of School Commissioners
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 26, 1987No. 87-7216PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:
Appellants, Alabama State Board of Education and Wayne Teague (“Board”) and Malcolm Howell, et al. (“Defendant-Intervenors”) appeal the district court’s order enjoining the use in Alabama public schools of forty-four textbooks approved by the Board for inclusion on the State-Adopted Textbook List, the use of which the district court found to be a violation of the establishment clause of the first amendment. We reverse.
I. BACKGROUND
A. Procedural History
This case is a continuation of the Alabama school prayer cases, Jaffree v. Board of School Comm’rs, 554 F.Supp. 1104…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- McGowan v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Lemon v. KurtzmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Everson v. Board of Ed. of EwingSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Abington School Dist. v. SchemppSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Harris v. McRaeSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Jaffree v. WallaceCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1988
- Douglas T. Smith v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, Alabama State Board of Education, Its Members, and Wayne Teague, Alabama State Superintendent of Education, Douglas T. Smith v. Guy Hunt, Governor of Alabama, Malcolm Howell, Corinne Howell, William P. Rodgers, Lemoine v. Brennan, Thomas A. Brennan, Alan v. Galdis, Barbara J. Bassett, Betty Ann Barnett Gartman, William David Gartman, Elizabeth T. Long, Vernon Moore, Brenda C. Moore, Defendants-IntervenorsCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1987
- Jaffree v. WallaceCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1988
- McGinley v. HoustonDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 2003
- Selman v. Cobb County School DistrictDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 2005