Hansen v. Volkov

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• holding that a statute allowing public school teachers to expressly dedicate a moment of silence to prayer violates the Establishment Clause
• holding that a statute allowing public school teachers to expressly dedicate a moment of silence to prayer violates the Establishment Clause
• holding that Alabama's moment-of-silence statute was unconstitutional because legislative history showed that the statute's primary purpose was to promote prayer and religion
• holding that Alabama statute re quiring one-minute moment of silence for “meditation or voluntary prayer,” violated the Establishment Clause insofar as it had no secular purpose
• holding that mandatory moment of silence in schools for the purpose of private prayer violated the Establishment Clause
• holding that state statute providing for a moment of silence for mediation or voluntary prayer violated the Establishment Clause

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