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BLOUNT v. DEPT. OF EDUC. & CULTURAL SERV.

551 A.2d 1377 (1988)

Robert P. BLOUNT et al. v. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL SERVICES et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided December 20, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel W. Lanham, Jr. (orally), Cuddy & Lanham, Bangor, for plaintiffs.

Christopher J. Klicka, Home School Legal Defense Ass'n, Great Falls, Va., for amicus curiae.

James E. Tierney, Atty. Gen., Peter J. Brann (orally), Asst. Atty. Gen., Augusta, for defendants.

Before McKUSICK, C.J., and ROBERTS, WATHEN, GLASSMAN, CLIFFORD and COLLINS, JJ.

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

When we affirmed the validity of state regulation of home schooling in State v. McDonough, 468 A.2d 977 (Me.1983), we observed that the McDonoughs had not argued that the State interfered with their free exercise of religion protected by both the Maine and the United States Constitutions. Id. at 979. Robert and Susan Blount of Vassalboro now raise the question left open in McDonough. Finding...

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