AMERICAN CIVIL LIB. U. v. ALBERT GALLATIN AREA SCH. DIST.

Civ. A. No. 69-558.

307 F.Supp. 637 (1969)

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, a New York nonprofit membership corporation; American Humanist Association, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of California; American Jewish Congress, a New York membership corporation; Greater Pittsburgh Council of Unitarian-Universalist Churches, an unincorporated association; Reverend Edward A. Cahill, Reverend Peter Ainslie, Reverend Richard P. Ridenour, Edwin J. Mangold, individually and as parent and natural guardian of James A. Mangold and Leonard Mangold, Reverend Alexander Seabrook, and Reverend Walter E. Wiest, Plaintiffs, v. The ALBERT GALLATIN AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, c/o Carmine Molinaro, Esq., Solicitor, 311 Second National Bank Building, Connellsville, Pennsylvania 15425, c/o Ruby Provane, Secretary, Fairchance-Georges Junior-Senior High School, R. D. #2, Uniontown, Pennsylvania 15401, Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. Pennsylvania.

December 19, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Kushner, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Mangold and his sons.

Carmine Molinaro, Connellsville, Pa., for The Albert Gallatin Area School District.


OPINION

ROSENBERG, District Judge.

This matter is here on a complaint seeking injunctive relief to enjoin the Albert Gallatin Area School District from conducting or observing religious programs in its schools.

The defendant filed an answer to the complaint in which it denied that the opening exercises conducted throughout the schools in the defendant school district constituted the establishment of a religious ceremony or exercise within the prohibitions...

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