ROMEIKE v. HOLDER

No. 12-3641.

718 F.3d 528 (2013)

Uwe Andreas Josef ROMEIKE, et al., Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: May 14, 2013.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied July 12, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Michael P. Farris , Home School Legal Defense Association, Purcellville, Virginia, for Petitioners. Walter Bocchini , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondents. ON BRIEF: Michael P. Farris , James R. Mason III , Home School Legal Defense Association, Purcellville, Virginia, for Petitioners. Margot L. Carter , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondents.

SUTTON, J., delivered the opinion of the court in which GILMAN and ROGERS, JJ., joined. ROGERS, J. (pg. 535), delivered a separate concurring opinion.


OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

Uwe and Hannelore Romeike have five children, ages twelve, eleven, nine, seven and two, at least at the time this dispute began. Rather than send their children to the local public schools, they would prefer to teach them at home, largely for religious reasons. The powers that be refused to let them do so and prosecuted them for truancy when they disobeyed orders to return the children to school. Had the Romeikes lived in America...

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