Opinion

State v. Epperson

  • 242 Ark. 922
  • 416 S.W.2d 322
Court
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Filed
Jun 5, 1967
Status
Published
Author
Ward
On the bench
Ward, Brown
Cited by
3 cases

Reversed by Epperson v. Arkansas, 393 U.S. 97 (1968)

chancery court struck down the law against teaching evolution on religious-freedom grounds where no criminal prosecution was pending

How later courts described this case

  • chancery court struck down the law against teaching evolution on religious-freedom grounds where no criminal prosecution was pending

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Paul Ward, Justice, concurring. I agree with the first sentence in the majority opinion.

To my mind, the rest of the opinion beclouds the clear announcement made in the first sentence.

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