Plaintiff Jennifer Workman filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against various West Virginia state and county officials, alleging that they violated her constitutional rights to religious freedom in refusing to admit her daughter to public school without...

Mason and Breit were in a long term relationship and wished to conceive a child. The were not married. They executed a written agreement and their child was conceived by in vitro fertilization, using the Mason's eggs and Breit’s sperm. Mason...

Defendants husband and wife consistently refused to send their children of compulsory attendance age to school on Fridays for religious reasons. In a summary proceeding before an alderman, defendants were convicted of violating the Pennsylvania School...

Since 1947, the North Dakota state legislature has authorized and encouraged thinly populated school districts to consolidate or reorganize into larger, more efficient districts. Reorganization plans are required by law to include provisions for school...

The parents' children attended a nonpublic, religious elementary school. The State filed a case and alleged that the parents violated Ohio Rev. Code § 3321.03 for failing to send their children to school because they did not conform to the minimum...

Plaintiffs Rodriguez and other Mexican-American parents whose children attended the elementary and secondary schools in defendant San Antonio Independent School District ("District ") filed a class action lawsuit in federal district court against...

Respondent Scott Ewing was enrolled at the University of Michigan in a six-year program of combined undergraduate and medical education, known as the Inteflex program. He was dismissed from the university after failing the "NBME Part I" examination...

The 5th section of an Act entitled "An Act to amend the customs revenue laws," authorized a court of the United States, in revenue cases, on motion of the government attorney, to require the defendant or claimant to produce in court his private...

Defendant Adamson was convicted of murder in the first degree without recommendation for mercy by a jury in a Superior Court of the State of California. Adamson contended that he could not take the stand to deny the evidence against him because he would...

Twining and Cornell were indicted for a criminal offense in a New Jersey court and having been found guilty by a jury, were sentenced to imprisonment for six and four years, respectively. At trial, the jury received instructions commenting on Twining...