JOYCE v. STATE


951 A.2d 69 (2008)

2008 ME 108

Jason JOYCE et al. v. STATE of Maine.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: July 1, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen C. Whiting, Esq. (orally), The Whiting Law Firm, P.A., Portland, ME, for Jason & Priscilla Joyce.

G. Steven Rowe, Attorney General, Sarah A. Forster, Asst. Atty. Gen. (orally), William H. Laubenstein, III, Asst. Atty. Gen, Augusta, ME, for the State of Maine.

Concurrence: CLIFFORD, J.


MEAD, J.

[¶ 1] In 2006, we held that Maine's statutory prohibition against the use of public funds to pay tuition at private sectarian schools through the state's tuition program did not violate the Free Exercise Clause, the Establishment Clause, or the Equal Protection Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Anderson v. Town of Durham, 2006 ME 39, ¶ 61, 895 A.2d 944, 961, cert. denied...

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