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FLOYD v. SMITH

No. CIV-3-92-608.

820 F.Supp. 350 (1993)

Thomas FLOYD, et al. v. Charles E. SMITH, Commissioner of Education for the State of Tennessee.

United States District Court, E.D. Tennessee, at Knoxville.

March 12, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maurice K. Guinn, Gentry, Tipton, Kizer & Little, P.C., Knoxville, TN, Michael P. Farris, Jordan W. Lorence, Home School Legal Defense Ass'n, Paeonian Springs, VA, for plaintiff.

Jane W. Young, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Tenn., Nashville, TN, George H. Buxton, III, Buxton & Wilkinson, Oak Ridge, TN, for defendants.

ORDER

HULL, District Judge.

This is a civil rights action, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, brought by parents who lack bachelor's degrees but who, nevertheless, school their 9-12th grade children at home. They challenge the constitutionality of Tenn.Code Ann. § 49-6-3050(b)(7)1, which requires parents to have a bachelor's degree or a statutory exemption in order to home school their own children beyond the 8th grade. They also challenge...

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