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| | | Issue | Whether Wisconsin’s compulsory school-attendance law (which requires a child’s school attendance until age 16) violates the Free Exercise rights of Amish who declined for religious reasons to send their children to public or private school after they had graduated from the eighth grade. | |
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Majority Opinion
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Burger, C.J. (Powell & Rehnquist did not participate) |
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Concurring Opinion
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Stewart, J, & White, J. |
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Dissenting Opinion
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Douglas, J. (dissenting in part) |
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Certiorari Granted
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05/24/1971 |
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Lower Court
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Wisconsin Supreme Court |
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Lower Court Ruling
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First Amendment claim sustained |
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Oral Arguments
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Oral Arguments
[Oyez]
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John W. Calhoun, Assistant Attorney General of Wisconsin
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