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LAMB'S CHAPEL v. CENTER MORICHES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT

No. 91-2024.

508 U.S. 384 (1993)

113 S.Ct. 2141

124 L.Ed.2d 352

LAMB'S CHAPEL et al. v. CENTER MORICHES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 7, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay Alan Sekulow argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Keith A. Fournier, Mark N. Troobnick, James M. Henderson, Sr., Jordan W. Lorence, Thomas Patrick Monaghan, Walter M. Weber, and John Stepanovich.

John W. Hoefling argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief for respondents Center Moriches Union Free School District et al. was Ross Paine Masler. Respondent Robert Abrams, Attorney General of New York, filed a brief pro se. With him on the brief were Jerry Boone, Solicitor General, and Lillian Z. Cohen and Jeffrey I. Slonim, Assistant Attorneys General.*

White, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and Blackmun, Stevens, O'Connor, and Souter, JJ., joined. Kennedy, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment, p. 397. Scalia, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which Thomas, J., joined, p. 397.

Justice White, delivered the opinion of the Court.

New York Educ. Law § 414 (McKinney 1988 and Supp. 1993) authorizes local school boards to adopt reasonable regulations for the use of school property for 10 specified purposes when the property is not in use for school purposes. Among the permitted uses is the holding of "social, civic and recreational meetings and entertainments, and other uses pertaining to the welfare of the community; but such meetings, entertainment...

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