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MOZERT v. HAWKINS COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Civ. No. 2-83-401.

647 F.Supp. 1194 (1986)

Bob MOZERT, et al. v. HAWKINS COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, et al. (Dr. Robert McElrath, Commissioner of Education of the State of Tennessee, Intervening Defendant).

United States District Court, E.D. Tennessee, Northeastern Division.

October 24, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael P. Farris, Cimron Campbell, Joy P. Jowdy and Jordan Lorence, Washington, D.C. also Larry E. Parrish and Fred McDonald, Memphis, Tenn., for plaintiffs.

W.J. Michael Cody, Atty. Gen. and Reporter, William H. Farmer, Advocate Gen., Michael W. Catalano, Deputy Atty. Gen., Charles Hampton White, Nashville, Tenn., Philip L. Boyd, Rogersville, Tenn., Timothy B. Dyk, Wilmer Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., and N.R. Coleman, Jr. and Ronald W. Woods, Greeneville, Tenn., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

HULL, Chief Judge.

This is a civil rights action, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking injunctive relief and money damages for the alleged violation of the plaintiffs' First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion. This controversy stems from the compulsory use of the 1983 edition of the Holt, Rhinehart and Winston basic reading series (Holt series) in the Hawkins County Public Schools. The plaintiffs, "fundamentalist" Christian school...

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