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BARNETTE v. WEST VIRGINIA STATE BOARD OF ED.

No. 242.

47 F.Supp. 251 (1942)

BARNETTE et al. v. WEST VIRGINIA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION et al.

District Court, S. D. West Virginia.

October 6, 1942.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hayden C. Covington, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Horace S. Meldahl, of Charleston, W. Va., for plaintiffs.

William S. Wysong, Atty. Gen. of West Virginia, and Ira J. Partlow, Asst. Atty. Gen. of West Virginia, for defendants.

Before PARKER, Circuit Judge, and HARRY E. WATKINS and MOORE, District Judges.

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit by three persons belonging to the sect known as "Jehovah's Witnesses", who have children attending the public schools of West Virginia, against the Board of Education of that state. It is brought by plaintiffs in behalf of themselves and their children and all other persons in the State of West Virginia in like situation, and its purpose is to secure an injunction restraining the State Board of Education from enforcing against...

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