FLAX v. RECONSTRUCTIONIST RABBINICAL

No. 86-12630.

44 Pa. D. & C. 3d 435 (1987)

Flax v. Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.

Common Pleas Court of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

June 1, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen G. Heckman, for plaintiff.

James M. Penny Jr., for defendant.


BRODY, J., June 1, 1987.

This case involves the interesting question of whether the First Amendment of the United States Constitution precludes this court from ordering a private religious seminary, in this case defendant Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, from reinstating a former student at the Seminary, plaintiff Ira Flax, as a seminarian into its rabbinic program.

On December 9 and 10, 1986, the court tried Flax's motion for preliminary injunction...

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