HUNT v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF COUNTY OF KANAWHA

Civ. A. No. 70-225.

321 F.Supp. 1263 (1971)

Dale HUNT and Gale Hunt, by next friend, their parent, Mrs. Levi Hunt, Barbara Williams, by next friend, her parent, Mrs. Harvey Williams, Donna Stewart, by next friend, her parent, Mr. Carl Stewart, Jackie Blake, by next friend, her parent, Mrs. L. A. Blake, Eddie Long, by next friend, his parent, Mr. William Long, Plaintiffs, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the COUNTY OF KANAWHA, Albert Anson, Jr., President, in his official capacity, the Department of Education of the State of West Virginia, Daniel B. Taylor, Superintendent, in his official capacity, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. West Virginia, Charleston Division.

January 18, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Boettner, Jr., Charleston, W. Va. (Appalachian Research and Defense Fund, Inc.), for plaintiffs.

John O. Kizer, Campbell, Love, Woodroe & Kizer, Charleston, W. Va., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM ORDER

JOHN A. FIELD, Jr., Chief Judge.

This action was instituted by six students of Herbert Hoover High School in Kanawha County seeking to enjoin and restrain the defendants from prohibiting the plaintiffs to meet voluntarily on the premises of the school for the purpose of engaging in group prayer and for a declaratory judgment that these acts of the defendants violate the rights of the plaintiffs under the first and 14th amendments to the...

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