Board of Public Education v. Watson

Dissenting Opinion by

Me. Justice Musmanno:

My distinguished colleague Justice Eagen begins his admirable and formidable dissent with the phrase: “I emphatically dissent!” If there were a way to emphasize “emphatically”, I would do so, for I regard the decision of the Court in this case as a most unfortunate *72one. It is one to baffle the intellect, confound the law, and set at hazard the scales in which are weighed the civic responsibilities and moral values expected of and required in a school teacher.

If Mrs. Goldie Watson, the teacher involved in this case, had publicly declared that she would…