AMS. UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CH. & ST. v. BENTON

Civ. No. 75-213-2.

413 F.Supp. 955 (1975)

AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE et al., Plaintiffs, v. Robert G. BENTON, State Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Iowa, et al., Defendants. Brian Riordan, a minor by his next friend, et al., Intervenors.

United States District Court, S. D. Iowa, C. D.

Supplemental Order January 26, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Z. Marks, Joseph L. Marks, Des Moines, Iowa, for plaintiffs.

Roger H. Ivie, Des Moines, Iowa, for defendants.

Gordon E. Allen, Des Moines, Iowa, for Iowa Civil Liberties Union (plaintiff).

John J. McLaughlin, Jerry E. Williams, Des Moines, Iowa, for intervenors.

Before STEPHENSON, Circuit Judge, HANSON, Chief District Judge and STUART, District Judge.


STEPHENSON, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs in this action1 are a combination of individual citizen taxpayers and organizations who join in asserting that the June 6, 1975, amendments to chapter 285 of the Iowa Code violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Plaintiffs seek to permanently enjoin the allocation or use of any public funds to implement the school transportation program pursuant to the...

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