Legal Opinion
Windsor Park Baptist Church, Inc. v. Arkansas Activities Association
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 10, 1981No. 81-1213PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
Windsor Park Baptist Church, Inc., operates the Fort Smith Christian School, a nonpublic school for grades one through twelve, in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The school is being excluded from interscholastic athletics because it refuses to apply to the Arkansas State Department of Education for accreditation. The District Court 1 held that the rule conditioning participation in interscholastic activities on state accreditation was a reasonable regulation of education, based on neutral, secular principles and purposes, and that no violation of the Free Exercise Clause of the…
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- Everson v. Board of Ed. of EwingSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
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