Legal Opinion
John Doe, Individually and as Next Friend of Jane Doe, a Minor v. Duncanville Independent School District
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 12, 1995No. 94-10416PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:
Defendants (collectively, the Duncanville Independent School District or DISD) appeal the district court’s permanent injunction forbidding certain religious practices in curricular and extracurricular activities at their schools as violations of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. We affirm in part and reverse in part.
I. FACTS
Plaintiffs in this case are Jane Doe, a student in the Duncanville Independent School District, and John Doe, her father. Jane Doe first enrolled in the DISD in 1988, when she entered the…
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