Legal Opinion
Grumet v. Cuomo
New York Supreme Court
Decided March 8, 1995PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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Lawrence E. Kahn, J.
The Satmar Hassidim once again find litigation to be a concomitant to their separate lives in the Village of Kiryas Joel. The instant controversy has its genesis in a conflict that has traveled through the courts of this State, to the State Legislature, once again through the State courts, to the United States Supreme Court, again to the State Legislature, and now once again, to this court.* The conflict itself juxtaposes the need to protect the separation of church and State, a constitutional principle that defines our civil life, against the fervent…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Lemon v. KurtzmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. BarnetteSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Everson v. Board of Ed. of EwingSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Abington School Dist. v. SchemppSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Widmar v. VincentSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Grumet v. CuomoNew York Court of Appeals · 1997
- Grumet v. PatakiAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1998
- Grumet v. CuomoAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996