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MOZERT v. HAWKINS COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

No. Civ-2-83-401.

582 F.Supp. 201 (1984)

Bob MOZERT, et al. v. HAWKINS COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, et al.

United States District Court, E.D. Tennessee, Northeastern Division.

March 15, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael P. Farris, Washington, D.C., and L.W. Bailey, Jr., Kingsport, Tenn., for plaintiffs.

N.R. Coleman, Jr. and Ronald W. Woods, Greeneville, Tenn., Charles Hampton White, Nashville, Tenn., Philip Boyd, Rogersville, Tenn., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

HULL, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, Hawkins County, Tennessee school children and their parents, have filed this civil rights action, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, objecting to the fact that Hawkins County public school children are taught to read from the Holt Basic Readings, published by Holt, Rhinehart, and Winston. They claim that the compulsory use of these texts, from the first to the eighth grade, violates their right of free exercise...

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