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BROCK v. WENDELL'S WOODWORK, INC.

Nos. 88-2063, 88-2064.

867 F.2d 196 (1989)

William E. BROCK, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WENDELL'S WOODWORK, INC.; Wendell Long; Herbert Long, Defendants-Appellants. William E. BROCK, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. McGEE BROTHERS CO.; Samuel A. McGee; Donald R. McGee; Michael R. McGee; R. Bill McGee; Cletus B. Huntley, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 7, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. James Chandler (Haynes, Baucom, Chandler, Claytor, Benton & Morgan, Charlotte, N.C., on brief); Hunter C. Quick (Thomas A. McNeely, Leonard, McNeely, MacMillan & Durham, Charlotte, N.C., on brief) for defendants-appellants.

William J. Stone (George R. Salem, Sol.; Monica Gallagher, Associate Sol.; Linda Jan S. Pack, Counsel for Appellate Litigation, U.S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C., on brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before RUSSELL and WILKINS, Circuit Judges, and HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge.

HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge:

Invoking the free exercise clause of the First Amendment, the members of the Shiloh True Light Church of Christ, a separatist religious sect, and associated employers of their children claimed an exemption from the child labor laws in connection with the employment of children as young as nine and ten years old in a church devised apprentice training program. The question arose in a proceeding brought by the Secretary of Labor against...

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