BLOOM v. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF SPRINGFIELD


376 Mass. 35 (1978)

379 N.E.2d 578

ELONORA F. BLOOM & others vs. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF SPRINGFIELD & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

July 20, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin B. Margulies (Laura Fieber with him) for the plaintiffs.

James S. Kaufman, Associate City Solicitor, for the School Committee of Springfield.

Mitchell J. Sikora, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, WILKINS, LIACOS, & ABRAMS, JJ.


KAPLAN, J.

The court is presented with the question whether a statute requiring school committees to loan textbooks to pupils attending private schools (sectarian and nonsectarian) offends against the provision of the Constitution of the Commonwealth which forbids the use of public money or property "for the purpose of founding, maintaining or aiding" such schools.

1. Statement. Thirteen taxable inhabitants of Springfield (see G.L.c. 40, § 53)...

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