Legal Opinion
Blount v. Department of Educational & Cultural Services
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided December 20, 1988PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McKUSICK, Chief Justice.
When we affirmed the validity of state regulation of home schooling in State v. McDonough, 468 A.2d 977 (Me.1983), we observed that the McDonoughs had not argued that the State interfered with their free exercise of religion protected by both the Maine and the United States Constitutions. Id. at 979. Robert and Susan Blount of Vassalboro now raise the question left open in McDonough. Finding our reasoning in that case still persuasive in the context of the Blounts’ religious freedom claim, we affirm the judgment of the Superior Court (Kennebec County; Brody, C.J.)…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Younger v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Wisconsin v. YoderSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Pierce v. Society of SistersSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. BarnetteSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
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3Cited by20 opinions
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- School Administrative District No. 1 v. Commissioner, Department of EducationSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1995
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