Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Charles City Community Schools Board of Education
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided May 22, 1985No. 83-493PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARRIS, Justice.
Plaintiffs are the pastor and certain members of a fundamentalist Baptist *76church in Charles City. The controversy arose following their organization of a parochial school. The parents were charged with violating Iowa’s compulsory attendance law, Iowa Code section 299.1 (1983). The section is quite typical in that it places the sanction for failure to attend on the parent rather than the child. The parents here responded by bringing two separate proceedings. One was a declaratory judgment action which challenged our statutory education requirements, not only the compulsory…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Lemon v. KurtzmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Wisconsin v. YoderSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Pierce v. Society of SistersSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
- Sherbert v. VernerSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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3Cited by29 opinions
- Rozanne E. King Alisha Jane King Dacie S. Houston, Individually and as Mother and Next Friend of Skylar Dwayne Ostrander, Chay Cortez Ostrander, and Adlia William Cortez Flood III Brandy R. Drake, Individually and as Mother and Next Friend of Logan Genner Luhmann, Susan Maule, Stephanie Maule, and Jacob Maule Michael Campbell, Individually and as Father and Next Friend of George Campbell and SophSupreme Court of Iowa · 2012
- In the Interests of A.C.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1987
- Blackwelder v. SafnauerDistrict Court, N.D. New York · 1988
- Care & Protection of CharlesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1987
- State v. DeLaBruereSupreme Court of Vermont · 1990
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