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AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION, ETC. v. SCH. DIST.

No. G 80-517.

546 F.Supp. 1071 (1982)

AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE, a District of Columbia corporation; Phyllis Ball, Katherine Pieper, Gilbert Davis, Patricia Davis, Frederick L. Schwass and Walter Bergman, Plaintiffs, v. The SCHOOL DISTRICT OF the CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS, a Municipal corporation; Phillip Runkel, Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Michigan; State Board of Education of the State of Michigan; Loren E. Monroe, State Treasurer of the State of Michigan, Defendants, Irma Garcia-Aguilar and Simon Aguilar, Bruce and Linda Bylsma, Robert and Penelope Comer, Clarence and Rosalee Covert, Scipuo and Janice Flowers, John and Shirley Leestma, Intervening Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. Michigan, S. D.

August 16, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert R. Dilley, Grand Rapids, Mich., for plaintiffs.

Frank J. Kelley, Atty. Gen. by Gerald F. Young, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lansing, Mich., for defendants Superintendent of Public Instruction, State Bd. of Educ. and State Treasurer.

Baxter & Hammond by William S. Farr and John R. Dastema, Grand Rapids, Mich., for defendant Bd. of Educ. of Grand Rapids Schools.

Stuart D. Hubbell, Traverse City, Mich., for intervening defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ENSLEN, District Judge.

Asserting transgressions of the Establishment Clause, Plaintiffs seek to enjoin certain cooperative educational arrangements, collectively styled "Shared Time", entered into pursuant to Michigan law by the School District of the City of Grand Rapids and various nonpublic, religiously-oriented, elementary and secondary schools located within, or proximate to, the School District. The challenged programs are conducted...

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