injunction prohibiting use of misleading interpretative statement on ballot in connection with state constitutional amendment
How later courts described this case
- injunction prohibiting use of misleading interpretative statement on ballot in connection with state constitutional amendment
- injunction prohibiting conduct of religious ceremonies in public schools
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Pee Cubiam.
The judgment entered in the Chancery Division declared
R.. S.
18:14-77 and
R. S.
18:14-78 to be unconstitutional and enjoined the defendants from authorizing or practicing religious ceremonies in the public schools of Hawthorne. The judgment was patently sound under the principles expressed by the United States Supreme Court in
Abington School Dist. v. Schempp,
374 U.
S.
203 , 83
S. Ct.
1560 , 10
L. Ed. 2d
844 (1963), and it is accordingly:
Affirmed.
For affirmance
— -Chief Justice Weinteaub, and Justices Jacobs, Pbancis, Peoctoe, Hall, Schettino and Hanemar — 7.
For reversal
— None.