Opinion

Lynch v. Indiana State University Board of Trustees

  • 441 U.S. 946
  • 99 S. Ct. 2166
  • 60 L. Ed. 2d 1048
  • 1979 U.S. LEXIS 1853
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Filed
May 14, 1979
Status
Published
Cited by
28 cases
Authority
More cited than 94.4%

finding no constitutional violation when public school dismissed instructor who insisted on reading the Bible to his students in the classroom

How later courts described this case

  • finding no constitutional violation when public school dismissed instructor who insisted on reading the Bible to his students in the classroom
  • dismissing federal action on ground of res judicata
  • upholding three-month amortization period

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

This record has no opinion text. It is a disposition such as a denial of certiorari, kept so the case can be found by name and citation.

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