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Petitioners' Reply Brief, William H. Meub, Orland Campbell Jr., Richard W. Garnett, Michael Stokes Paulsen Dec 1999

Petitioners' Reply Brief, William H. Meub, Orland Campbell Jr., Richard W. Garnett, Michael Stokes Paulsen

Court Briefs

No. 99-628
Cynthia Andrews v. Vermont Department of Education

On Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari To The Vermont Supreme Court

From the Petitioners' Reply Brief

The question presented in this case is whether the First Amendment allows government to discriminate on the basis of religion in funding school-choice education programs that include private schools. In the Petition, we showed (1) that this issue is nationally important; (2) that this issue is recurrent; and (3) that this issue has generated extraordinary and pervasive conflicts among lower and federal state courts, and between decisions of lower courts and this Court.


Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari, William H. Meub, Orland Campbell Jr., Richard W. Garnett, Michael Stokes Paulsen Oct 1999

Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari, William H. Meub, Orland Campbell Jr., Richard W. Garnett, Michael Stokes Paulsen

Court Briefs

No. 99-628
Cynthia and Douglas Andrews v. Chittenden Town School District

On Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari To The Vermont Supreme Court

From the Reasons for Granting the Writ

This is a case about discrimination - discrimination against "religious ideas, religious people, [and] religious schools." Board of Educ. of Kiryas Joel v. Grumet, 512 U.S. 687, 717 (1994) (O'Connor, J., concurring in part and concurring in the judgment). Vermont provides an immensely valuable benefit - tuition - to eligible residents and their high-school-age children. Petitioners have been denied this educational benefit solely because they have chosen a religious …


Brief Amicus Curiae, Urging Reversal, On Behalf Of - John J. Russell, Bishop Of Richmond; Lawrence Cardinal Shehan, Archbishop Of Baltimore; Paul A. Hallinan, Archbishop Of Atlanta; Philip M. Hannan, Archbishop Of New Orleans; Robert E. Lucey, Archbishop Of San Antonio; Joseph B. Brunini, Apostolic Administrator Of Natchez-Jackson; Lawrence M. Defalco, Bishop Of Amarillo; Joseph A. Dirick, Apostolic Administrator Of Nashville; Thomas K. Gorman, Bishop Of Dallas-Ft. Worth; Joseph H. Hodges, Bishop Of Wheeling; John L. Morkovsky, Apostolic Administrator Of Galveston-Houston; Victor J. Reed, Bishop Of Oklahoma City And Tulsa; L. J. Reicher, Bishop Of Austin; Thomas Tschoepe, Bishop Of San Angelo; Ernest L. Unterkoefler, Bishop Of Charleston; Vincent S. Waters, Bishop Of Raleigh; The National Catholic Conference For Interracial Justice; And The National Catholic Social Action Conference, William M. Lewers C.S.C, William B. Ball Feb 1967

Brief Amicus Curiae, Urging Reversal, On Behalf Of - John J. Russell, Bishop Of Richmond; Lawrence Cardinal Shehan, Archbishop Of Baltimore; Paul A. Hallinan, Archbishop Of Atlanta; Philip M. Hannan, Archbishop Of New Orleans; Robert E. Lucey, Archbishop Of San Antonio; Joseph B. Brunini, Apostolic Administrator Of Natchez-Jackson; Lawrence M. Defalco, Bishop Of Amarillo; Joseph A. Dirick, Apostolic Administrator Of Nashville; Thomas K. Gorman, Bishop Of Dallas-Ft. Worth; Joseph H. Hodges, Bishop Of Wheeling; John L. Morkovsky, Apostolic Administrator Of Galveston-Houston; Victor J. Reed, Bishop Of Oklahoma City And Tulsa; L. J. Reicher, Bishop Of Austin; Thomas Tschoepe, Bishop Of San Angelo; Ernest L. Unterkoefler, Bishop Of Charleston; Vincent S. Waters, Bishop Of Raleigh; The National Catholic Conference For Interracial Justice; And The National Catholic Social Action Conference, William M. Lewers C.S.C, William B. Ball

Court Briefs

No. 395
Richard Perry Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia

On Appeal from the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia

From the Summary Statement of the Case

Appellants, Richard Perry Loving and Mildred Jeter Loving, were convicted on January 6, 1959, in the Circuit Court of Caroline County, Virginia, under an indictment charging that "the said Richard Perry Loving being a White person and the said Mildred Delores Jeter [Loving] being a Colored person, did unlawfully and feloniously go out of the State of Virginia, for the purpose of being married and with the intention of returning to the State of …