Kiryas Joel II revisits issue of favoritism
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Kiryas Joel II challenges a New York law enacted after the first Kiryas Joel case stating that any municipality meeting certain criteria could secede from its local school district and form another. The suit claims that the second law is no different from the one the Supreme Court struck down in Kiryas Joel I since Kiryas Joel is the only town meeting these criteria. Moreover, the second law still violates the establishment clause since it authorizes a school district for one religious group. If Kiryas Joel II goes as far as the Supreme Court, the constitutionality of the village itself may become a question.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1995
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Neutrality isn't always even-handed policy
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The US Supreme Court ruled in Rosenberger v. Rector & Visitors of University of Virginia that state neutrality toward religious expression and the constitutional right to freedom of speech require a public university to give both religious and secular student publications the same access to student activities financing from a student activities fund. This ruling was wrong for several reasons. The neutrality standard might violate the constitutional separation of church and state because students exposed to a school prayer they did not have to participate in might feel pressured to do so.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1996
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Kiryas Joel's school now in zone of law
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The Supreme Court is likely to uphold NY's 1994 statute allowing individual municipalities to form their own school districts. Predictions by Prof Gary Simson and others to the contrary do not closely read the reasoning behind the 1994 rejection of the prior statute, which was limited to the village of Kiryas Joel. The new statute avoids all the objections then given except Justice Stevens's, and only one other justice who then agreed with Stevens is still on the court.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1995
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