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MINERSVILLE SCHOOL DIST. v. GOBITIS

No. 6862.

108 F.2d 683 (1939)

MINERSVILLE SCHOOL DIST. et al. v. GOBITIS et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Writ of Certiorari Granted March 4, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph W. Henderson, of Philadelphia, Pa., John B. McGurl, of Minersville, Pa., and George M. Brodhead, Jr., of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellants.

Harry M. McCaughey, of Philadelphia, Pa., and O. R. Moyle, of Brooklyn, N. Y., for appellee.

Arthur Garfield Hays, Jerome M. Britchey, and William G. Fennell, all of New York City, for American Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae.

Before BIGGS and CLARK, Circuit Judges, and KALODNER, District Judge.

Writ of Certiorari Granted March 4, 1940. See 60 S.Ct. 609, 84 L.Ed. ___.

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

Eighteen big states1 have seen fit to exert their power over a small number of little children2 ("and forbid them not"). The method of exercise has sometimes been by their representatives in solemn conclave assembled and sometimes, as here, by an administrative agency (School Board). The matter of exercise...

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