· 11/17/1980
Jeanne Brandon v. The Board of Education of the Guilderland Central School District
Citations
- 635 F.2d 971
- 1980 U.S. App. LEXIS 12201
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- neutral policy granting all groups access to school facilities reflects valid secular purpose of encouraging extracurricular activities
- religious instruction in public school facilities on school time at no cost to district held unconstitutional
- school’s refusal to allow students to meet for prayer meetings before or after school not unconstitutional as violative of the free exercise clause
- if the government must engage in continuing supervision of religious activity, church and state become excessively entangled
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Judges: Kaufman, Kearse, Bright
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