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BAPTIST CHURCH v. DEP'T OF ED.

Docket No. 73665, (Calendar No. 14).

426 Mich. 462 (1986)

396 N.W.2d 373

SHERIDAN ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH v. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided November 24, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ball & Skelly (by William Bentley Ball, Philip J. Murren, and Sandra E. Wise) and Michael E. Thomas for the plaintiffs.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Gerald F. Young and Paul J. Zimmer, Assistant Attorneys General, for the defendants.

Amici Curiae:

Steven F. McDowell, General Counsel, and Lawson, Marcus & Portko (by Jeffrey R. Portko) for Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.

Foster, Swift, Collins & Coey, P.C. (by James A. White and William K. Fahey), for Michigan Education Association.

Miller, Cohen, Martens & Ice, P.C. (by Mark H. Cousens and Glenda L. Pittman), for Michigan Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO.

Decided November 24, 1986. Rehearing denied 427 Mich. 1202.

WILLIAMS, C.J.

This case involves primarily a free exercise of religion challenge based on the First, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and art 1, § 4, and art 8, § 1, of the Michigan Constitution1 to the state statute requiring teachers in nonpublic schools to be certified by the state...

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