COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION & RELIGIOUS LIBERTY v. NYQUIST

No. 72-694.

413 U.S. 756 (1973)

COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION & RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ET AL. v. NYQUIST, COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION OF NEW YORK, ET AL.

Supreme Court of the United States.

Decided June 25, 1973


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo Pfeffer argued the cause for appellants in No. 72-694 and for appellees in Nos. 72-753, 72-791, and 72-929. With him on the brief were Melvin L. Wulf and Burt Neuborne. Jean M. Coon, Assistant Solicitor General of New York, argued the cause for Nyquist et al., appellees in No. 72-694 and appellants in No. 72-791. With her on the brief were Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney General, and Ruth Kessler Toch, Solicitor General. Porter R. Chandler argued the cause for appellants in No. 72-929 and for appellees Boylan et al. in No. 72-694. With him on the brief was Richard E. Nolan. John F. Haggerty argued the cause for appellant in No. 72-753. With him on the brief was Louis P. Contiguglia.


MR. JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court.

These cases raise a challenge under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the constitutionality of a recently enacted New York law which provides financial assistance, in several ways, to nonpublic elementary and secondary schools in that State. The cases involve an intertwining of societal and constitutional issues of the greatest importance.

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