Gaffney v. State Department of Education

At issue in this appeal is the constitutionality, under the Constitution of Nebraska and the Constitution of the United States, of the “Nebraska Textbook Loan Act,” originally L. B. 659, Laws ,1971, now sections 79-4,118, 79-4,118.01, 79-4,119, and 79-1338, R. R. S. 1943. Generally, the legislative program embodied in these sections of the statute and in L. B. 659 intended to provide financial assistance to nonpublic elementary and sec*360ondary schools through the loan of secular textbooks by public school district boards of education. The plaintiffs, pursuant to section 79-4,118, R. R. S. 1943,…