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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.
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 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)
[38] [39] Home schooling is lawful in all 50 states, and although the U.S. Supreme Court has never ruled on homeschooling specifically, in Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972) it supported the rights of Amish parents to keep their children out of public schools for religious reasons. [citation needed]
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Nov. 27—The state Supreme Court affirmed a District Court judge's decision that said while Democratic lawmakers tried to dilute Republican voting power in one of the state's three congressional ...
A similar case, Michigan v. Wisconsin 270 U.S. 295 (1926), had previously been brought to the Supreme Court but was dismissed. In 1936, the Supreme Court decision chose the ship channel through the Rock Island Passage as the more common, so Wisconsin retained the intervening water area with its islands: Plum, Detroit, Washington, Hog, and Rock.