STATE v. WHISNER

No. 75-746.

47 Ohio St. 2d 181 (1976)

THE STATE OF OHIO, APPELLEE, v. WHISNER ET AL., APPELLANTS.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided July 28, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Lee E. Fry, prosecuting attorney, Messrs. Spidel, Staley, Hole & Hanes and Mr. Hugh A. Staley, for appellee.

Messrs. Ball & Shelly, Mr. William Bentley Ball, Mr. Joseph G. Skelly, Messrs. Miller, Schlemmer & Weisbrod and Mr. Robert N. Schlemmer, for appellants.


CELEBREZZE, J.

This cause presents sensitive issues of paramount importance involving the power of the state to impose extensive regulations upon the structure and government of non-public education, and, conversely, upon the right of these appellants to freely exercise their professed religious beliefs in the context of providing an education to their children. Because both the Court of Appeals and the Court of Common...

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