Legal Opinion
May v. Cooperman
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 24, 1985No. Nos. 83-5890, 84-5126PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.
This appeal by the New Jersey Senate and Assembly as intervening defendants seeks to overturn a declaratory judgment of the district court that N.J.S.A. 18A:36-4 (West 1984-1985) violates the establishment clause of the first amendment. The intervening defendants also appeal from a declaratory judgment that plaintiffs are entitled to counsel fees on the authority of 42 U.S.C. § 1988 (1982). The. appeal requires that we assess the impact on the district court’s ruling of the subsequent decision of the Supreme Court in Wallace v. Jaffree, — U.S.-, 105…
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3Cited by27 opinions
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