INGEBRETSEN v. JACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST.

No. 3:94-cv-411WS.

864 F.Supp. 1473 (1994)

David INGEBRETSEN, On Behalf of Himself and His Daughter, Anna Ingebretsen; Berlena McCallum, On Behalf of Herself and Her Son, John M. Dozier; The Rev. Dr. Donald Bell, On Behalf of Himself and His Daughter, Kathryn Diana Bell; William D. Lamson, On Behalf of Himself and His Daughter, Leigh Lamson-Quay; Terry Bacola, On Behalf of Herself and Her Sons, Brian Bacola and Darren Bacola; Robert S. McGowan; Jerusha Degroote; John Baker; American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. The JACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT; Board of Trustees of the Jackson Public School District, By and Through Its President, Mark Bailey; and Mike Moore, In His Official Capacity as The Attorney General of the State of Mississippi, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

September 2, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. McDuff, Jackson, MS, Elliot M. Mincberg, Judith E. Schaeffer, People for the American Way, Washington, DC, for plaintiffs.

James A. Keith, J. Perry Sansing, Jackson, MS, T. Hunt Cole, Jr., Miss. Atty. General's Office, Jackson, MS, for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

WINGATE, District Judge.

Before the court is the plaintiffs' motion for preliminary injunction which seeks to enjoin the enforcement of Mississippi's school-prayer statute, 1994 Miss.Laws ch. 609, §§ 1 to 3 (codified as amended at Miss.Code Ann. §§ 37-13-4 & 37-13-4.1 (rev. 1990)). This statute purports to permit public-school students to initiate prayer...

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