Matter of Rahman v. Annucci

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• holding that a state could not compel students in public schools to salute the flag, where their religion forbade it
• holding that a regulation requiring public school children to salute the American flag violated the First Amendment
• holding that a state cannot require students to salute the American flag
• distinguishing between permissibly educating students as to meaning of flag salute and impermissibly compelling them to “declare a belief’ by performing the salute
• preventing a state government from forcing children to salute the American flag when the children’s religious beliefs forbade such behavior
• invalidating mandatory educational requirement that the pledge of allegiance be recited

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).