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Board of Education of the Westside Community Schools, etc., et al., Petitioners v. Bridget C. Mergens, by and through her next friend, Daniel N. Mergens, et al. 867 F.2d 1076 ( 8th Cir. 1989); cert. granted, 492 U.S. 917 (1989). School districts may not prohibit Bible study groups from meeting on school premises if they allow other groups to ...
Mergens, 496 U.S. 226 (1990) The Equal Access Act is a United States federal law passed as Title VIII of the Education for Economic Security Act in 1984 to compel federally funded public secondary schools to provide equal access to extracurricular student clubs. Lobbied for by Christian groups who wanted to ensure students the right to conduct ...
The case was initially ruled in favor of the school by the District Court, being over turned in the Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court granted Westside certiorari, following appeal. In 1990, Westside Community Board of Education v. Mergens was heard by the Supreme Court. In an 8–1 decision, the court said that since the club did not study ...
Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586 (1940), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States restricting the religious rights of public school students under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Court ruled that public schools could compel students—in this case ...
Widmar v. Vincent (1981) Westside Community Board of Education v. Mergens (1990) Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District (1993) Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia (1995) Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, No. 21-418, 597 U.S. ___ (2022) Free exercise and public property
Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools, due to violation of the First Amendment. [1]
In Board of Education of Westside Community Schools v. Mergens, 496 U.S. 226, 236 (1990), the Court upheld this law when it ruled that a school board's refusal to allow a Christian Bible club to meet in a public high school classroom violated the act. In Good News Club v.
Yates v. United States , 354 U.S. 298 (1957), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States [1] that held that the First Amendment protected radical and reactionary speech, unless it posed a " clear and present danger ".