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SCHEMPP v. SCHOOL DISTRICT OF ABINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA.

Civ. A. No. 24119.

177 F.Supp. 398 (1959)

Edward Lewis SCHEMPP, Sidney Gerber Schempp, Individually and as Parents and Natural Guardians of Ellory Frank Schempp, Roger Wade Schempp and Donna Kay Schempp v. SCHOOL DISTRICT OF ABINGTON TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA, James F. Koehler, O. H. English, Eugene Stull, M. Edward Northam.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

As Amended September 22, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry W. Sawyer, III, Wayland H. Elsbree, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

C. Brewster Rhoads, Philip H. Ward, Sidney L. Wickenhaver, Philadelphia, Pa., Percival R. Rieder, Abington, Pa., for defendants.

Lois G. Forer, Philadelphia, Pa., amicus curiae.

Leo Pfeffer, New York City, Maximillian J. Klinger, Theodore R. Mann, Philadelphia, Pa., for American Jewish Congress, amicus curiae.

Lewis F. Adler, Harrisburg, Pa., for Pennsylvania State Education Ass'n., amicus curiae.

Before BIGGS, Circuit Judge, and KIRKPATRICK and KRAFT, District Judges.

BIGGS, Circuit Judge.

The suit at bar is brought by Edward Lewis Schempp and Sidney Gerber Schempp, individually and as parents and natural guardians of Ellory Frank Schempp, Roger Wade Schempp and Donna Kay Schempp, against School District of Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, O. H. English, Superintendent of Abington Township Schools, Eugene Stull, Principal of the Abington Senior High School, and M...

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