Sherr v. Northport-East Northport Union Free School District

WEXLER, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

The Bill of Rights opens with the powerful admonition, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ...,” U.S. CONST, amend. I, and, at least throughout most of the twentieth century, courts throughout the United States have maintained a vigorous watch over possible governmental encroachment upon the fundamental right of individuals to hold fast to the beliefs and practices that stem from their personal and diverse conceptions of the nature of the universe and man’s place in it. 1 The…