Fannin v. Williams

LEIBSON, Justice.

This is a declaratory judgment action challenging the validity of KRS 171.215, a statute supplying textbooks to children in the state’s nonpublic schools (Kentucky Acts, 1978, Ch. 139, effective June 17,1978).

The complaint attacked the nonpublic school textbook statute as unconstitutional under sections 3, 5, 171, 180, 184, 186 and 189 of the Kentucky Constitution; as an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power to administrative officials; and as unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. On motion for summary…