Legal Opinion
Mozert v. Hawkins County Board of Education
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 24, 1987No. Nos. 86-6144, 86-6179, 86-6180 and 87-5024PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIVELY, Chief Judge.
This case arose under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, made applicable to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment. The district court held that a public school requirement that all students in grades one through eight use a prescribed set of reading textbooks violated the constitutional rights of objecting parents and students. The district court entered an injunction which required the schools to excuse objecting students from participating in reading classes where the textbooks are used and awarded the plaintiff parents more than $50,000 damages.
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2Cases cited18 opinions
- Wisconsin v. YoderSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Sherbert v. VernerSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- 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
- Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security DivisionSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
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