SIMMONS-HARRIS ET AL., APPELLEES AND CROSS-APPELLANTS,
v.
GOFF, SUPT., ET AL., APPELLANTS AND CROSS-APPELLEES.
GATTON ET AL., APPELLEES,
v.
GOFF, SUPT., ET AL., APPELLANTS.
Supreme Court of Ohio.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Submitted September 28, 1998.
Decided May 27, 1999.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Robert H. Chanin and John M. West, pro hac vice; Cloppert, Portman, Sauter, Latinick & Foley, David G. Latanick and William J. Steel; Christopher A. Lopez, Steven R. Shapiro, Joan M. Englund, Elliot M. Mincberg, Judith Schaeffer and Steven K. Green, for appellees and cross-appellants Doris Simmons-Harris et al.
Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, L.L.P., Donald J. Mooney, Jr., Mark D. Tucker and Roger L. Schantz; Marvin E. Frankel, pro hac vice, and Justine A. Harris, for appellees Sue Gatton et al.
Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, Jeffrey S. Sutton; Sharon A. Jennings, Roger F. Carroll and Elizabeth K. Ziewacz, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellants and cross-appellees John M. Goff and the state of Ohio.
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, L.L.P., David J. Young, Scott L. Marrah and Michael R. Reed; Wegman, Hessler, Vanderburg & O'Toole, David Hessler and
Nathan Hessler, Chester, Willcox & Saxbe and John J. Chester, for appellants and cross-appellees Hanna Perkins School et al.
Clint Bolick, pro hac vice, William H. Mellor III and Richard D. Komer; Reminger & Reminger and Kevin Foley, for appellants and cross-appellees Hope for Cleveland's Children et al.
Melnick & Melnick and Robert R. Melnick; John W. Whitehead and Steven H. Aden, urging reversal for amicus curiae Rutherford Institute.
Zeiger & Carpenter, John W. Zeiger and Marion H. Little, Jr., urging reversal for amici curiae Citizens for Educational Freedom, Parents Rights Organization, and Education Freedom Foundation.
Nathan J. Diament, pro hac vice, urging reversal for amicus curiae Institute for Public Affairs, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America.
Hugh Calkins and John K. Sullivan, amici curiae, urging reversal.
Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, L.L.P., Nathan Lewin and Richard W. Garnett; and Dennis Rapps, urging reversal for amici curiae the National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs, Agudath Harabonim of the United States and Canada, National Council of Young Israel, Rabbinical Alliance of America, Rabbinical Council of America, Torah Umesorah, National Society of Hebrew Day Schools, Agudath Israel of America, and Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America.
Kevin J. Hasson, Eric W. Treene and Roman P. Storzer, urging reversal for amicus curiae Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.
Thomas G. Hungar and Eugene Scalia, pro hac vice, urging reversal for amici curiae Center for Education Reform, Representative William F. Adolph, Jr., American Legislative Exchange Council, Arkansas Policy Foundation, ATOP Academy, Center for Equal Opportunity, CEO America, Representative Henry Cuellar, Education Leaders Council, Floridians for Educational Choice, Maine School Choice Coalition, Reach Alliance, Texas Coalition for Parental Choice in Education, United New Yorkers for Choice in Education, "I Have a Dream" Foundation of Washington, D.C., Institute for Transformation of Learning, Liberty Counsel, Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation, Minnesota Business Partnership, National Federation of Independent Business, North Carolina Education Reform Foundation, Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association, Putting Children First, Mayor Bret Schundler, Texas Justice Foundation, and Toussaint Institute.
Goldstein & Roloff and Morris L. Hawk, urging affirmance for amicus curiae Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy in School Funding.
Wolman, Genshaft & Gellman and Benson A. Wolman, urging affirmance for amicus curiae National Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty.
Patrick F. Timmins, Jr., urging affirmance for amicus curiae Coalition of Rural and Appalachian Schools.
Supreme Court of Ohio.
PFEIFER, J.
The court of appeals ruled on six substantive constitutional issues. We will address each of them in turn. We conclude that the current School Voucher Program generally does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution or the Establishment Clause of Section 7, Article I of the Ohio Constitution, and does not violate the School Funds Clause of Section 2, Article VI of the Ohio Constitution, the...
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