HANOVER v. NORTHRUP

Civ. No. 13772.

325 F.Supp. 170 (1970)

Nancy L. HANOVER v. Charles NORTHRUP, Superintendent of Schools, Shepaug Valley Regional School District No. 12, Robert McDonald, Edward Tierney, Edward Went, Howard Bronson, Edward Meeker, William Napolitano, Edith Kinney, and Carol Cook, Acting Chairman and Members, Board of Education, Shepaug Valley Regional School District No. 12.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

May 1, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ira B. Grudberg, Jacobs, Jacobs, Grudberg & Clifford, New Haven, Conn., for plaintiff.

Walter M. Pickett, Jr., Larkin & Pickett, Waterbury, Conn., for defendant.


RULING ON PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AND DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO DISMISS

BLUMENFELD, District Judge.

In thousands of schools across the country, tens of thousands of teachers lead hundreds of thousands of students in the primary grades in a recital of the Pledge of Allegiance,1 at the commencement of every school day. This case, brought under the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, presents the question...

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