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· 10/21/1987

Sherr v. Northport-East Northport Union Free School District

Citations

  • 672 F. Supp. 81
  • 56 U.S.L.W. 2260
  • 1987 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9759

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  • explaining that a claimant cannot merely frame their conviction in terms of religious belief to gain the legal remedy desired
  • parents refused to submit their children to mandatory vaccinations because they believed vaccination interfered with their beliefs that “[a]ll things are part of one intimate universe, or whole” and that all persons must “live in harmony with the mutual world and its order”
  • “Defining ‘religion’ for legal purposes is an inherently tricky proposition.”

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Judges: Wexler

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