Legal Opinion
Cochran v. Louisiana State Board of Education
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 28, 1930No. 468PublishedCited by 120 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hughes
The appellants, as citizens and taxpayers of the State of Louisiana, brought this suit to restrain the State Board of Education and other state officials from expending any part of the severance tax fund in purchasing school books and in supplying them free of cost to the school children of the State, under Acts No. 100 and No. 143 of 1928, upon the ground that the legislation violated specified provisions of the constitution of the State and also section 4 of Article IV and the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution. The Supreme Court of the State affirmed the judgment of the trial…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Loan Assn. v. TopekaSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
- Borden v. Louisiana State Board of EducationSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1929
- Cochran v. Louisiana State Board of EducationSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1929
3Cited by120 opinions
- Everson v. Board of Ed. of EwingSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Carmichael v. Southern Coal & Coke Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1937
- Board of Ed. of Central School Dist. No. 1 v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Norwood v. HarrisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Mitchell v. HelmsSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
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