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WRIGHT v. HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT

Civ. A. No. 70-H-1236.

366 F.Supp. 1208 (1972)

Rita WRIGHT et al. v. HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT et al.

United States District Court, S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

As Amended October 30, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leona Weber, pro se, James K. Kelly, Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Herbert Coffman, Houston, Tex., for intervening plaintiff.

Bracewell & Patterson, William Key Wilde and Kelly Frels, Houston, Tex., Crawford Martin, Atty. Gen., James C. McCoy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER:

SEALS, District Judge.

Plaintiffs—students of the Houston Independent School District—here seek to enjoin the District and the State Board of Education from teaching the theory of evolution as part of the District's academic curriculum and from adopting textbooks which present that theory without critical analysis and to the exclusion of other theories regarding the origins of man. Plaintiffs base their claim for relief...

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