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AMICUS BRIEF
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EXTRACTED KEY WORDS
AID COURT AMENDMENT ESTABLISHMENT SECONDARY SCHOOLS AMICUS CLAUSE FUNDS SECTARIAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS UNITED STATES CATHOLICS RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PROTESTANT JUSTICE BRENNAN CONST COMMON SCHOOLS SUPREME COURT NOTRE DAME WASHINGTON SPECIAL TREATMENT CONSTITUTION BECKET FUND AMICUS CURIAE PREJUDICES NONSECTARIAN PETITIONERS MASSACHUSETTS BLAINE AMENDMENTS |
IN THE
Supreme Court of the United States
Nos. 00-1751, 00-1777, 00-1779.
SUSAN TAVE ZELMAN, et al.,
Petitioners,
v.
DORIS SIMMONS-HARRIS, et al.,
Respondents.
On Writ of Certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
BRIEF OF THE BECKET FUND FOR
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AS AMICUS CURIAE
IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONERS
PROF. RICHARD GARNETT KEVIN J. HASSON*
NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL ERIC W. TREENE
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 ROMAN P. STORZER
(219) 631-6981 ANTHONY R. PICARELLO, JR.
THE BECKET FUND FOR
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
1350 Connecticut Ave., N.W.
Suite 605
Counsel for Amicus Curiae Washington, D.C. 20036
*Counsel of Record (202) 955-0095
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF AUTHORITIES................................................iii
INTEREST OF THE AMICUS...............................................1
SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT.....................................2
ARGUMENT..........................................................................5
I. THE SPECIAL TREATMENT OF PRIMARY AND
SECONDARY SCHOOLS ARTICLULATED IN
SOME OF THIS COURT'S ESTABLISHMENT
CLAUSE CASES IS UNSOUND AND OWES
MORE TO BYGONE PREJUDICES AND FEARS
THAN TO THE COMMANDS OF THE FIRST
AMENDMENT...........................................................5
A. This Court Has Often Treated Aid Involving
Primary and Secondary Schools as a Special
Analytical Category. .......................................5
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