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COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION v. REGAN

No. 78-1369.

444 U.S. 646 (1980)

COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ET AL. v. REGAN, COMPTROLLER OF NEW YORK, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 20, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo Pfeffer argued the cause and filed a brief for appellants.

Shirley Adelson Siegel, Solicitor General of New York, argued the cause for appellees Regan et al. With her on the brief were Robert Abrams, Attorney General, and John Q. Driscoll, Assistant Attorney General. Richard E. Nolan argued the cause for appellee schools. With him on the brief was Thomas J. Aquilino, Jr. Nathan Lewin and Dennis Rapps filed a brief for appellee Yeshivah Rambam.

MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court.

The issue in this case is the constitutionality under the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution of a New York statute authorizing the use of public funds to reimburse church-sponsored and secular nonpublic schools for performing various testing and reporting services mandated by state law. The District Court sustained the statute. Committee for Public Education v. Levitt,<...

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