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Meek Vs. Pittenger

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 19, 1975

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  8. U.S. 349 (1975) U.S. Supreme Court Meek v. Pittenger
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  9. U.S. 349 (1975) Meek v. Pittenger
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  10. provide the services do not advance the religious mission of the church-related schools in which they serve. Cf. Lemon v. Kurtzman
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  11. textbook loan program of Act 195 is constitutionally indistinguishable from the program upheld in Board of Education v. Allen
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  12. the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, made applicable to the States by the Fourteenth Amendment. Murdock v. Pennsylvania
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  13. by this Court in recent Establishment Clause cases. See, e.g., Committee for Public Education Religious Liberty v. Nyquist
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  14. U. S. 602 , 403 U. S. 612 -613. First, the statute must have a secular legislative purpose. E.g., Epperson v. Arkansas
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  15. that neither advances nor inhibits religion. E.g., School District of Abington Township v. Schempp
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  16. Third, the statute and its administration must avoid excessive government entanglement with religion. E.g., Walz v. Tax
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  17. with which to identify instances in which the objectives of the Establishment Clause have been impaired. See Tilton v. Richardson
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  18. have been 'sponsorship, financial support, and active involvement of the sovereign in religious activity.' Walz v. Tax
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  19. Public Education & Religious Liberty v. Nyquist
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  20. Everson v. Board
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  21. that provide indirect or incidental benefit to a religious institution are prohibited by the Constitution. See Zorach v. Clauson
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  22. of Act 195 are constitutionally indistinguishable from the New York textbook loan program upheld in Board of Education v. Allen
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  23. York's textbook loan program in the Allen case was based primarily on this Court's earlier decision in Everson v. Board
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  24. collective summaries of these requests which they forward to the appropriate public officials. See Board of Education v. Allen
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  25. The law was construed by the New York Court of Appeals to apply solely to secular textbook. Board of Education v. Allen
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  26. a). We accept the legitimacy of this secular legislative purpose. Cf. Lemon v. Kurtzman
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  27. reimbursement program considered in Lemon v. Kurtzman
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  28. and the parent tuition reimbursement plan considered in Sloan v. Lemon
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  29. the constitutional prohibition against establishment Page 421 U. S. 365 of religion. See, e.g., Everson v. Board
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  30. state aid has the impermissible primary effect of advancing religion. Hunt v. McNair
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  31. the teaching process is, to a large extent, devoted to the inculcation of religious values and belief. See Lemon v. Kurtzman
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  32. the direct and substantial advancement of religious activity, cf. Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. Nyquist
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  33. Page 421 U. S. 367 v. Unlike
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  34. functioning in church-related schools to ensure that a strictly nonideological posture is maintained. In Earley v. DiCenso
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  35. a companion case to Lemon v. Kurtzman
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  36. not advance the religious mission of the church-related schools in which they serve. Public Funds for Public Schools v. Marburger
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  37. students, and not for normal students participating in the core curriculum, does not distinguish this case from Earley v. DiCenso
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  38. and Lemon v. Kurtzman
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  39. not employed by the nonpublic schools, are not directly subject to the discipline of a religious authority. Cf. Lemon v. Kurtzman
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  40. In addition, Act 194, like the statutes considered in Lemon v. Kurtzman
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  41. supra, and Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. Nyquist
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  42. religious lines, one of the principal evils against which the Establishment Clause was intended to protect. See Lemon v. Kurtzman
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  43. Flast v. Cohen
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  44. Board of Education v. Allen
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  45. whether the general program is codified in one statute or two. See Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. Nyquist
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  46. Board of Education v. Allen
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  47. U.S. Supreme Court Meek v. Pittenger
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  48. Cf. Lemon v. Kurtzman
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  49. the Fourteenth Amendment. Murdock v. Pennsylvania
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  50. Public Education Religious Liberty v. Nyquist
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