Civics Study Guide Court Cases: First Amendment (part 1 of 1st amendment)
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stripesndots on May 6, 2010
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First Amendment: establishment and free exercise clauses
-religion
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Minersville School District vs. Gobitis (1940) | students are required to salute the flag despite religious beliefs |
| West VA State Board of Education vs. Barnette (1943) | saluting the flag is voluntary and not compulsory if there are religious objections |
| Engle vs. Vitale (1962) | no child could be compelled to participate in school prayer because it was against the Establishment clause |
| Wallace vs. Jaffree (1985) | struck down moment of silent prayer |
| Everson vs. Board of Education (1947) | states can provide busing |
| Walz vs. Tax Commission of the City of New York (1970) | court upheld tax-exempt status for religious institutions |
| Wisconsin vs. Yoder (1972) | Amish can educate their own after the 8th grade |
| Lemon vs. Kurtzman (1971) | guidelines to determine whether policy, action, or law violated the establishment clause--purely secular in purpose, neither inhibit nor advance religion, and no government entanglement in religion |
| Reynolds vs. U.S. (1879) | Mormon polygamy was an illegal act and not a religious rite |
| Bunn vs. North Carolina (1948) | snake handling endangers health and safety |
| Edwards vs. Aguillard (1987) | struck down a Louisiana law requiring the teaching of "creation science" in the public schools as a counter to the teaching of evolution. The court ruled that the law prohibits use of public funds for religious purpose |
| Scopes vs. Tennessee (1925) | Scopes was convicted of violating a Tennessee law prohibiting the teaching of evolution |
| Employment Division vs. Smith (1991) | general applicability of law to religious practice |
| Zorach vs. Clausen (1952) | NY City's released time programs was challenged, but the court held that the program did not aid religion. It simply required that public schools "accommodate" a program of outside religious instruction |
| Church of Lakumi Babalue Aye vs. City of Hileah (1987) | South Carolina overturned community law banning animal sacrifice as a religious rite |
| Welsh vs. U.S. (1970) | allowed moral, ethical, and philosophical reasons for conscientious objector status |
| McCollum vs. Board of Education (1948) | public classrooms and facilities could not be used for religious instruction |
| Allegheny County vs. Greater Pittsburgh ACLU (1989) | Chanukah and Christmas displays are permitted in public places but not one display and not the other |
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