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West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette , 319 U.S. 624 (1943), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court holding that the First Amendment protects students from being forced to salute the American flag or say the Pledge of Allegiance in public school.
The most important U.S. Supreme Court legal victory won by the Witnesses was in the case West Virginia State Board of Education vs. Barnette (1943), in which the court ruled that school children could not be forced to pledge allegiance to or salute the U.S. flag. The Barnette decision overturned an earlier case, Minersville
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A West Virginia bill that would have provided a framework for public school teachers to remove kindergarten and elementary school students from the classroom for severe misbehavior failed to pass ...
The attorneys for three Bellingham Public Schools administrators charged with failing to report a student’s sexual assaults have asked the court to dismiss the cases, contending the state law ...
From the last sentence of the Background section: "The West Virginia Supreme Court refused to force the school board from requiring children to salute the flag, which led to the federal lawsuit being filed." The school board 'wanted' to compel students to salute the flag, and was doing so.
Dal Rae Beach filed a lawsuit in Jefferson Circuit Court against the assistant special agent in charge of Louisville's FBI office, Quincy Barnett, accusing him of sexual harassment and retaliation
The New York Court held that due to the 1943 case West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette there was general knowledge that there could be no compulsion on students to participate or expose themselves to the Pledge. The Court dismissed Lewis' claims that the pledge was an establishment of religion citing Zorach v.