MOZERT v. HAWKINS COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

No. CIV-2-83-401.

579 F.Supp. 1051 (1984)

Bob MOZERT, et al. v. HAWKINS COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, et al.

United States District Court, E.D. Tennessee, Northeastern Division.

February 24, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael P. Farris, Washington, D.C., and L.W. Bailey, Jr., Kingsport, Tenn., for plaintiff.

N.R. Coleman, Jr. and Ronald W. Woods, Greeneville, Tenn., Charles Hampton White, Nashville, Tenn., Phillip L. Boyd, Rogersville, Tenn., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

HULL, District Judge.

This is a civil rights action, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, for damages and injunctive relief, alleging violations of the free exercise clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and of the fundamental right of parents to control the education and religious and moral instruction of their children.

The plaintiffs are certain Hawkins County, Tennessee, school children and their parents who object...

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