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  2. Lemon v. Kurtzman - Wikipedia

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    Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971), was a case argued before the Supreme Court of the United States. [1] The court ruled in an 8–0 decision that Pennsylvania's Nonpublic Elementary and Secondary Education Act (represented through David Kurtzman) from 1968 was unconstitutional and in an 8–1 decision that Rhode Island's 1969 Salary Supplement Act was unconstitutional, violating the ...

  3. School prayer in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Following these two cases came the Court's decision in Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971), a ruling that established the Lemon test for religious activities within schools. The Lemon test states that, in order to be constitutional under the Establishment Clause, any practice sponsored within state-run schools (or other public state-sponsored activities ...

  4. List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Burger Court

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    402 U.S. 611 (1971) Criminal offenses on sidewalk Cohen v. California: 403 U.S. 15 (1971) Freedom of speech, fighting words/obscenity, “fuck the draft” Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents: 403 U.S. 388 (1971) Implied right of action in the Fourth Amendment: Lemon v. Kurtzman: 403 U.S. 602 (1971) Laws without a secular purpose violate the ...

  5. Alton Lemon - Wikipedia

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    Lemon was the named lead plaintiff in Lemon v. Kurtzman a 1971 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Pennsylvania law allowing public tax funds to be paid to parochial schools violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. [8] It is one of the most highly cited Supreme Court decisions.

  6. Separation of church and state in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971), the court determined that a Pennsylvania state policy of reimbursing the salaries and related costs of teachers of secular subjects in private religious schools violated the Establishment Clause. The court's decision argued that the separation of church and state could never be absolute: "Our prior ...

  7. County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union

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    In a complex and fragmented decision, the majority held that the County of Allegheny violated the Establishment Clause by displaying a crèche in the county courthouse, because the "principal or primary effect" of the display was to advance religion within the meaning of Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971), when viewed

  8. First Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    In Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971), these points were combined into the Lemon test, declaring that an action was an establishment if: [60] the statute (or practice) lacked a secular purpose; its principal or primary effect advanced or inhibited religion; or; it fostered an excessive government entanglement with religion.

  9. Burger Court - Wikipedia

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    The court held that this violated the Establishment Clause, and the court created the Lemon test to determine whether a law is constitutional under the Establishment Clause. New York Times v. United States (1971): In a 6–3, per curiam decision, the court allowed The New York Times and The Washington Post to publish the Pentagon Papers.