Before the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Oregon in the Matter of the Teaching Certificate of Janet COOPER.
Janet Cooper, Respondent — Cross-Petitioner,
v.
EUGENE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 4J, Petitioner — Cross-Respondent, and
Verne A. Duncan, Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Oregon, Cross-Respondent.
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Argued and Submitted February 11, 1985.
Decided October 30, 1985.
Reconsideration Denied January 17, 1986.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Margaret E. Rabin, Salem, argued the cause for cross-respondent Verne A. Duncan and petitioner — cross-respondent Eugene School Dist. No. 4J. With her on briefs were Dave Frohnmayer, Atty. Gen., and James E. Mountain, Jr., Sol. Gen., Salem, and Bruce E. Smith and Jacquelyn Romm, and Case, Scott, Woods & Smith, Eugene.
Rohn M. Roberts, Eugene, argued the cause for respondent — cross-petitioner Janet Cooper. With him on brief was Jack R. Roberts, and Adkins, Roberts & Roberts, Eugene.
Leslie M. Swanson, Jr., and Sharon A. Rudnick, Eugene, filed a brief amicus curiae for the American Civil Liberties Union.
Before GILLETTE, P.J., and VAN HOOMISSEN and YOUNG, JJ.
Court of Appeals of Oregon, En Banc.
YOUNG, Judge.
This case requires us to review a final order of the Superintendent of Public Instruction in which he revoked the teaching certificate of Janet Cooper,1 because she wore religious dress while teaching in a public school operated by Eugene School District No. 4J. The district petitioned for review of the superintendent's order, seeking to have it affirmed.2 Cooper cross-petitioned, seeking reversal...
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