SPECIAL DIST. FOR ED. & TR. OF HAND. CHILDREN OF ST. LOUIS COUNTY v. WHEELER

No. 51909.

408 S.W.2d 60 (1966)

The SPECIAL DISTRICT FOR the EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF HANDICAPPED CHILDREN OF ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Missouri, Plaintiff-Appellant, State of Missouri, Intervenor Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Hubert WHEELER, Commissioner of Education, State of Missouri, et al., Defendants-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

Rehearings Denied November 14, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ziercher, Tzinberg, Human & Michenfelder, Erwin Tzinberg, Richard Roth, Clayton, Carson, Inglish, Monaco & Coil, John W. Inglish, Jefferson City, for appellant Special Dist. for Education etc.

Norman H. Anderson, Atty. Gen., Louis C. Defeo, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for appellant State of Missouri.

Thompson Mitchell Douglas & Neill, James M. Douglas, William G. Guerri, Richard W. Metz, St. Louis, for respondents.

Franklin C. Salisbury, Washington, D.C., Harry C. Avery, St. Louis, amici curiae Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Edward T. Matheny, Jr., Larry L. McMullen, Caldwell, Blackwell, Sanders & Matheny, Kansas City, for School Dist. of Kansas City, Mo., amici curiae.

Robert P. Baine, Jr., Clayton, Amicus Parents and Children.

Huger, Cramer & Pollman, Bernard J. Huger, Walter H. Pollman, St. Louis, Downey, Sullivan & McCormick, Thomas M. Sullivan, Kansas City, George A. Rozier, Jefferson City, Ben J. Francka, Spring-field, for these amici curiae Vincent Knese and Mary Ann Knese, His Wife.

Joseph B. Robison, New York City, Gerald Tockman, Jerome W. Sidel, St. Louis, amici curiae American Jewish Congress, Missouri State Region, and Jewish Labor Committee, St. Louis Chapter.


DONNELLY, Judge.

Plaintiff is the Special District for the Education and Training of Handicapped Children of St. Louis County, Missouri, a public school district. Defendants are Hubert Wheeler, State Commissioner of Education, and the members of the State Board of Education. Intervenor Plaintiff is the State of Missouri by its Attorney General.

During the 1963-64 school year, the Special District provided speech therapy to parochial school children by sending...

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