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· 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

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • 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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