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Your query religion religious returned 22 results.

1000 HEIN V. FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION, INC.
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1000 MITCHELL V. HELMS
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Whether a program under Chapter 2 of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 20 U.S.C. 7301, et seq., which provides federal funds to state and local education agencies to purchase and lend neutral, secular, and nonreligious materials such as computers, software, and library books to public and nonpublic schools for use by the students attending those schools, and which allocates the funds on an equal per-student basis, regardless of the religious or secular character of the schools the students choose to attend, violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
812 AGOSTINI V. FELTON, 117 S.CT. 1997, 138 L.ED.2D 391 (1997).
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706 CAPITOL SQUARE REVIEW BD. V. PINETTE, 515 U.S. 753 (1995).
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697 CUTTER V. WILKINSON
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692 MCCREARY COUNTY V. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIESUNION OF KY.
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686 ZELMAN V. SIMMONS-HARRIS
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Ohio's Pilot Project Scholarship Program, which provides, inter alia, tuition aid for Cleveland schoolchildren to attend a participating public or private, religious or nonreligious, school of their parent's choosing, does not offend the Establishment Clause.
665 VAN ORDEN V. PERRY
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609 CHURCH OF THE LUKUMI BABALU AYE V. CITY OF HIALEAH, 508 U.S. 520 (1993).
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607 GOOD NEWS CLUB V. MILFORD CENTRAL SCHOOL
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When Milford Central School excluded the Good News Club from meeting after hours at the school on the ground that the Club was religious in nature, it violated the Club's free speech rights; that violation is not justified by Milford's concern that permitting the Club's activities would violate the Establishment Clause.
598 BOARD OF EDUC. OF KIRYAS JOEL VILLAGE SCH. DIST. V. GRUMET, 114 S. CT. 2481,
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583 LOCKE V. DAVEY
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The Washington Constitution provides that no public money shall be appropriated or applied to religious instruction. Following this constitutional command, Washington does not grant college scholarships to otherwise eligible students who are pursuing a degree in theology. Does the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment require the state to fund religious instruction, if it provides college scholarships for secular instruction?
565 LEE V. WEISMAN, 505 U.S. 577 (1992).
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554 SANTA FE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST. V. DOE
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Whether petitioner's policy permitting student-led, student-initiated prayer at football games violates the Establishment Clause."
554 HEIN V. FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION, INC.
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545 ROSENBERGER V. UNIVERSITY OF VA., 515 U.S. 819 (1995).
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504 LAMB'S CHAPEL V. CTR. MORICHES UNION FREE SCH. DIST., 508 U.S. 384 (1993).
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463 CITY OF BOERNE V. FLORES, 117 S.CT. 2157, 138 L.ED.2D 624 (1997).
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384 ELK GROVE UNIFIED SCHOOL DIST. V. NEWDOW
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(1) Whether Michael Newdow has standing to challenge as unconstitutional a public school district policy that requires teachers to lead willing students in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance? (2) Whether a public school district policy that requires teachers to lead willing students in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, which includes the words "under God," violates the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment, as applicable through the 14th Amendment?
360 WATCHTOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOC. OF N. Y., INC. V.VILLAGE OF STRATTON
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A village ordinance making it a misdemeanor to engage in door-to-door advocacy without first registering with the mayor and receiving a permit violates the First Amendment as it applies to religious proselytizing, anonymous political speech, and the distribution of handbills.
260 ZOBREST V. CATALINA FOOTHILLS SCH. DIST., 509 U.S. 1 (1993).
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260 HIBBS V. WINN
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