Opinion

Mercer v. Michigan State Board of Education

  • 419 U.S. 1081
  • 95 S. Ct. 673
  • 42 L. Ed. 2d 678
  • 1974 U.S. LEXIS 3776
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Filed
Dec 23, 1974
Status
Published
On the bench
Brennan, Douglas, Jurisdiction, Set, Would
Cited by
17 cases
Authority
More cited than 74.3%

affirming a district court decision that denied a public school teacher standing to assert the rights and parents, when the district court could not determine “whether or not any parents or students desire these laws to be changed.”

How later courts described this case

  • affirming a district court decision that denied a public school teacher standing to assert the rights and parents, when the district court could not determine “whether or not any parents or students desire these laws to be changed.”
  • State has ultimate power over curricular and administrative decisions absent an unconstitutional motivation

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Affirmed on appeal from D. C. E. D. Mich.

Mr. Justice Douglas, Mr. Justice Brennan, and Mr. Justice White would note probable jurisdiction and set case for oral argument.

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