Legal Opinion

Keegan v. University of Delaware

Supreme Court of Delaware

Decided November 12, 1975PublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

McNEILLY, Justice:

This is an appeal from a decision of the Court of Chancery granting plaintiff, University of Delaware, summary judgment and a permanent injunction against defendants, priests and intervening University students, prohibiting religious worship services in a commons room of the dormitory in which the students live. The pertinent facts and history of this case are succinctly stated in the Court’s opinion, 318 A.2d 135 (1974). We emphasize, however, that we are dealing with a very particular factual situation involving a University campus dormitory.

The University contends that…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. ButtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  2. Lemon v. KurtzmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  3. Wisconsin v. YoderSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  4. Sherbert v. VernerSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  5. Everson v. Board of Ed. of EwingSupreme Court of the United States · 1947

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3Cited by18 opinions

  1. Jeanne Brandon v. The Board of Education of the Guilderland Central School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1980
  2. Lubbock Civil Liberties Union v. Lubbock Independent School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
  3. Johnson v. Huntington Beach Union High School DistrictCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1977
  4. Chess v. WidmarCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1980
  5. Brandon v. Board of EducationDistrict Court, N.D. New York · 1980

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