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Committee for Pub. Educ. Vs. Regan

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Feb 20, 1980

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  1. Committee for Public Education Vs. Nyquist US Supreme Court · Jun 25, 1973
  2. Hunt Vs. Mcnair US Supreme Court · Jun 25, 1973
  3. Cantwell Vs. Connecticut US Supreme Court · May 20, 1940
  4. Meek Vs. Pittenger US Supreme Court · May 19, 1975
  5. U.S. 646 (1980) U.S. Supreme Court Committee for Pub. Educ. v. Regan
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  6. U.S. 646 (1980) Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty v. Regan
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  7. and teacher-prepared tests, had been held to be violative of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment in Levitt v. Committee
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  8. the costs of so complying with state law has primarily a secular, rather than a religious, purpose and effect. Wolman v. Walter
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  9. will not be read into the plan as an inevitability. Pp. 444 U. S. 659 -661. (e) The decision in Meek v. Pittenger
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  10. and reporting services mandated by state law. The District Court sustained the statute. Committee for Public Education v. Levitt
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  11. of school financial records that would ensure that public funds were used only for secular purposes. In Levitt v. Committee
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  12. Ibid., quoting Lemon v. Kurtzman
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  13. was deemed to constitute an impermissible aid to religion. The Court distinguished its earlier holdings in Everson v. Board
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  14. of Education, 330 U. S. 1 (1947), and Board of Education v. Allen
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  15. U.S. at 413 U. S. 481 , quoting Lemon v. Kurtzman
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  16. invalidated the enactment with respect to both the tests and the reporting procedure. Committee for Public Education v. Levitt
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  17. F.Supp. 1174 (1976) ( Levitt II ). The District Court understood the decision in Meek v. Pittenger
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  18. to this Court. We vacated the District Court's judgment and remanded the case in light of our decision in Wolman v. Walter
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  19. nor inhibits religion, and if it does not foster an excessive government entanglement with religion. See Roemer v. Maryland
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  20. U.S. at 403 U. S. 612 -613. In Wolman v. Walter
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  21. Wolman v. Walter
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  22. examinations, passed our Establishment Clause tests. III We agree with the District Court that Wolman v. Walter
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  23. with the factual or legal characterization of the testing procedure arrived at by the District Court. As in Wolman v. Walter
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  24. But here, as we shall see, the New York law provides ample safeguards against excessive or misdirected reimbursement. v. The
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  25. VI It is urged that the District Court judgment is unsupportable under Meek v. Pittenger
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  26. for Appellants 9-11. The difficulty with this position is that a majority of the Court, including the author of Meek v. Pittenger
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  27. has repeatedly held the Establishment Clause applicable to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment. E.g., Meek v. Pittenger
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  28. As MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN wrote in Roemer v. Maryland
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  29. Cf. New York v. Cathedral
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  30. conceivably occur under a system of state aid involving direct appropriations. Cf. Committee for Public Education v. Nyquist
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  31. providing public aid to parochial schools. Page 444 U. S. 663 I thought that the Court's judgments in Meek v. Pittenger
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  32. U. S. 349 (1975), and in Wolman v. Walter
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  33. is not. The line necessarily was not a straight one. It could not be, when this Court, on the one hand, in Everson v. Board
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  34. of the cost of fares for the transportation of children attending parochial schools, and in Board of Education v. Allen
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  35. to students in private secondary schools was not violative of those Amendments, and yet, on the other hand, in Lemon v. Kurtzman
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  36. from nonpublic schools, and also in Levitt v. Committee
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  37. to reimburse nonpublic schools for the expenses of tests and examinations. See also Committee for Public Education v. Nyquist
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  38. a tuition reimbursement plan, and tax relief for parents who did not qualify for tuition reimbursement, and Sloan v. Lemon
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  39. invalid a state plan for parental reimbursement of a portion of nonpublic school tuition expenses. And see Roemer v. Maryland
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  40. Court initially and unanimously to hold New York's revised plan to be unconstitutional, Committee for Public Education v. Levitt
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  41. Levitt II ), and that prompted Judge Ward, in his persuasive dissent in Levitt III, Committee for Public Education v. Levitt
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  42. by Chapter 507 differs significantly from the types of state aid to religious schools approved by the Court in Wolman v. Walter
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  43. of neutral testing organizations. It did not authorize direct financial aid of any type to religious schools. Wolman v. Walter
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  44. administered in part on the sectarian premises, on the basis of its recognition in a number of cases, see, e.g., Meek v. Pittenger
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  45. id. at 433 U. S. 252 , n. 18, created by Board of Education v. Allen
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  46. Pub. Educ. v. Regan
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  47. Public Education and Religious Liberty v. Regan
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  48. Levitt v. Committee
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  49. Public Education v. Levitt
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  50. In Levitt v. Committee
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