Alexander v. Rogers

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• observing that “[w]here the right infringed is fundamental, strict scrutiny is applied to the challenged governmental regulation”
• upholding school district's mandatory health classes against a father's claim of a violation of his fundamental rights
• failing to verify the assertions made in summary judgment motion with citations to the record \would derogate the truth-finding functions of the judicial process by substituting convenience for facts\
• Smith’s “hybrid claims” language dicta; parent’s religious objection to mandatory health education subject to rational basis review
• The fundamental right to control the upbringing and education of one’s child does not include “the right to tell public schools what to teach or what not to teach him or her.”
• plaintiff did not allege that \his community's entire way of life is threatened;\ plaintiff \does not assert that there is an irreconcilable Yoder-like clash between the essence of [plaintiff's] religious culture and the mandatory health curriculum that he challenges\

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