SCHEMPP v. SCHOOL DISTRICT OF ABINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA.

Civ. A. No. 24119.

201 F.Supp. 815 (1962)

Edward L. SCHEMPP et al. v. SCHOOL DISTRICT OF ABINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA., et al.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

February 1, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry W. Sawyer, III, Wayland H. Elsbree, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

C. Brewster Rhoads, Sidney L. Wickenhaver, Philip H. Ward, III, Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pa., Percival R. Rieder, Abington, Pa., for defendants and School Dist. of Abington.

David Stahl, Atty. Gen. of Pennsylvania, John D. Killian, III, Deputy Atty. Gen., for Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Lewis F. Adler, Harrisburg, Pa., for Pennsylvania State Education Ass'n.

Maximillian J. Klinger, Theodore R. Mann, Philadelphia, Pa., for American Jewish Congress, amicus curiae.

Sydney C. Orlofsky, Philadelphia, Pa., for Jewish Community Relations Counsel of Greater Philadelphia, amicus curiae.

Lois G. Forer, Philadelphia, Pa., amicus curiae.

Before BIGGS, Circuit Judge, and KIRKPATRICK and KRAFT, District Judges.


BIGGS, Circuit Judge.

For a full understanding of the problems presented by this case it will be necessary to read our earlier opinions at D.C.1959, 177 F.Supp. 398; D.C.1959, 184 F.Supp. 381; and D.C.1961, 195 F.Supp. 518. To recapitulate events briefly we state that the suit at bar was brought on February 14, 1958, by Edward and Sidney Schempp as parents...

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