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METZL v. LEININGER

No. 94-2563.

57 F.3d 618 (1995)

Andrea METZL, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert LEININGER, State Superintendent of Education, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 19, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Millner (argued), Robert B. Millner, David J. Stagman, Camille E. Bennett, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Sylvia Neil, American Jewish Congress, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellee.

Thomas A. Ioppolo, Daniel N. Malato (argued), Asst. Attys. Gen., Civ. Appeals Div., Chicago, IL, for defendant-appellant.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and CUMMINGS and MANION, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

Christians believe that Jesus Christ was crucified on a Friday afternoon in the spring and that he rose from the dead the following Sunday. The crucifixion is commemorated on Good Friday, the resurrection on Easter Sunday. In 1941 Illinois made Good Friday a state holiday; state facilities, including schools (but not colleges or universities), were to be closed on that day. There is no contemporaneous legislative history but in the following year...

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