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Meek Vs. Pittenger
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- US Supreme Court
- May 19, 1975
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U.S. 349 (1975) U.S. Supreme Court Meek v. PittengerSearch
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U.S. 349 (1975) Meek v. PittengerSearch
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provide the services do not advance the religious mission of the church-related schools in which they serve. Cf. Lemon v. KurtzmanSearch
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textbook loan program of Act 195 is constitutionally indistinguishable from the program upheld in Board of Education v. AllenSearch
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the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, made applicable to the States by the Fourteenth Amendment. Murdock v. PennsylvaniaSearch
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by this Court in recent Establishment Clause cases. See, e.g., Committee for Public Education Religious Liberty v. NyquistSearch
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U. S. 602 , 403 U. S. 612 -613. First, the statute must have a secular legislative purpose. E.g., Epperson v. ArkansasSearch
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that neither advances nor inhibits religion. E.g., School District of Abington Township v. SchemppSearch
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Third, the statute and its administration must avoid excessive government entanglement with religion. E.g., Walz v. TaxSearch
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with which to identify instances in which the objectives of the Establishment Clause have been impaired. See Tilton v. RichardsonSearch
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have been 'sponsorship, financial support, and active involvement of the sovereign in religious activity.' Walz v. TaxSearch
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Public Education & Religious Liberty v. NyquistSearch
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Everson v. BoardSearch
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that provide indirect or incidental benefit to a religious institution are prohibited by the Constitution. See Zorach v. ClausonSearch
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of Act 195 are constitutionally indistinguishable from the New York textbook loan program upheld in Board of Education v. AllenSearch
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York's textbook loan program in the Allen case was based primarily on this Court's earlier decision in Everson v. BoardSearch
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collective summaries of these requests which they forward to the appropriate public officials. See Board of Education v. AllenSearch
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The law was construed by the New York Court of Appeals to apply solely to secular textbook. Board of Education v. AllenSearch
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a). We accept the legitimacy of this secular legislative purpose. Cf. Lemon v. KurtzmanSearch
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reimbursement program considered in Lemon v. KurtzmanSearch
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and the parent tuition reimbursement plan considered in Sloan v. LemonSearch
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the constitutional prohibition against establishment Page 421 U. S. 365 of religion. See, e.g., Everson v. BoardSearch
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state aid has the impermissible primary effect of advancing religion. Hunt v. McNairSearch
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the teaching process is, to a large extent, devoted to the inculcation of religious values and belief. See Lemon v. KurtzmanSearch
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the direct and substantial advancement of religious activity, cf. Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. NyquistSearch
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Page 421 U. S. 367 v. UnlikeSearch
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functioning in church-related schools to ensure that a strictly nonideological posture is maintained. In Earley v. DiCensoSearch
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a companion case to Lemon v. KurtzmanSearch
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not advance the religious mission of the church-related schools in which they serve. Public Funds for Public Schools v. MarburgerSearch
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students, and not for normal students participating in the core curriculum, does not distinguish this case from Earley v. DiCensoSearch
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and Lemon v. KurtzmanSearch
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not employed by the nonpublic schools, are not directly subject to the discipline of a religious authority. Cf. Lemon v. KurtzmanSearch
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In addition, Act 194, like the statutes considered in Lemon v. KurtzmanSearch
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supra, and Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. NyquistSearch
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religious lines, one of the principal evils against which the Establishment Clause was intended to protect. See Lemon v. KurtzmanSearch
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Flast v. CohenSearch
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Board of Education v. AllenSearch
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whether the general program is codified in one statute or two. See Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. NyquistSearch
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Board of Education v. AllenSearch
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U.S. Supreme Court Meek v. PittengerSearch
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Cf. Lemon v. KurtzmanSearch
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the Fourteenth Amendment. Murdock v. PennsylvaniaSearch
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Public Education Religious Liberty v. NyquistSearch
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