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Wisconsin v. Jonas Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that Amish children could not be placed under compulsory education past 8th grade. The Court ruled that the Amish parents' fundamental right to free exercise of religion outweighed the state's interest in educating their children.
In Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205, the Court stressed the limited scope of Pierce, pointing out that it lent "no support to the contention that parents may replace state educational requirements with their own idiosyncratic views of what knowledge a child needs to be a productive and happy member of society" but rather "held simply that while ...
Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) Widmar v. Vincent (1981) Westside Community Board of Education v. Mergens (1990) Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District (1993) Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia (1995) Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, No. 21-418, 597 U.S. ___ (2022)
William Bentley Ball, KSG (October 6, 1916 - January 10, 1999) was a prominent American constitutional lawyer, Roman Catholic layman, and former US Navy officer who gained national attention for winning the precedent-setting Wisconsin Supreme Court case Wisconsin v. Yoder in a 6-1 decision which held that requiring Amish parents to send their ...
In a May 30, 2023 Politico article about Wisconsin’s political landscape, former Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, claimed his own 2010 win was an “exception” and that the state isn’t red ...
The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment states that Congress shall not pass laws prohibiting the free exercise of religion. In the 1960s, the Supreme Court interpreted this as banning laws that burdened a person's exercise of religion (e.g. Sherbert v. Verner, 374 U.S. 398 (1963); Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972)). But in the ...
Wisconsin's powerful Republican Assembly leader said Tuesday that he hopes the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court adopts new constitutional legislative boundary maps, even as he slammed ...
Saluting the flag or reciting the Pledge of Allegiance – West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943) Requiring a newspaper to publish an advertisement – Miami Herald v. Tornillo (1974) School attendance past the eighth grade – Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) Motto on license plate – Wooley v. Maynard (1977) [21]