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BOWERMAN v. O'CONNOR

No. 287-Appeal.

247 A.2d 82 (1968)

Frederick E. BOWERMAN et al. v. John J. O'CONNOR, Jr. et al.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

October 28, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milton Stanzler, William J. Sheehan, Harold E. Adams, Jr., Providence, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Edward W. Day, Jr., Abraham Goldstein, Providence, Herbert F. DeSimone, Atty. Gen., Charles G. Edwards, Asst. Atty. Gen. (intervening) for defendants-appellants.

Edwards & Angell, William H. Edwards, John H. Blish, Hogan & Hogan, Edward T. Hogan, Providence, Arthur E. Sutherland, Cambridge, Mass., amicus curiae, Special Committee for Aid on Textbooks.

Louis Baruch Rubinstein, Sidney L. Rabinowitz, Howard I. Lipsey, Providence, Arnold Forster, Paul Hartman, Sol Rabkin, New York City, amici curiae, Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'Rith.

Walter Adler, Leonard Decof, Providence, amici curiae, American Jewish Committee.

OPINION

PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from the judgment of a superior court justice holding that P.L. 1963, chap. 12, sec. 2, now G.L. 1956, § 16-23-2, as amended, commonly referred to as the textbook aid law, violates the establishment of religion prohibitions of the first amendment to the constitution of the United States, and art. 1, sec. 3 of the constitution of Rhode Island.

The suit was commenced February 16, 1965, by a bill of complaint...

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