MAZANEC v. NORTH JUDSON-SAN PIERRE SCHOOL CORP.

No. 84-2485.

750 F.2d 625 (1984)

Richard MAZANEC, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. NORTH JUDSON-SAN PIERRE SCHOOL CORPORATION, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 19, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. LaSalvia, South Bend, Ind., Professor Edward Gaffney, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Thomas O. Mulligan, Mulligan & Fenton, Knox, Ind., David M. Wallman, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, Ind., for defendants-appellees.

Before CUMMINGS, Chief Judge, and ESCHBACH and POSNER, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs, who brought this suit in 1981 under the federal civil rights laws to challenge the constitutionality of Indiana's compulsory-schooling law, have appealed from the district judge's order, entered after trial in 1984, "that all further proceedings in this matter are hereby stayed for the purpose of allowing the plaintiffs to present their claims in the state courts of Indiana." A better word than "allowing" would be "compelling...

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