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Teaching religion in public schools was forbidden.
Teaching religion in public schools was forbidden.
Engel v. Vitale, 191 N.Y.S.2d 453 (Sup. Ct. 1959) began in the Supreme Court at Special Term in Nassau County, New York. A decision favoring the New Hyde Park, NY, school district was rendered October 5, 1959, by Judge Bernard S. Meyer. The court held the Reagents' Prayer was constitutional.Engle was subsequently appealed to the Supreme Court Appellate Division, Second Department which affirmed the lower court decision in Engel v. Vitale, 206 N.Y.S.2d 183 (1960); and upheld again by the New York Court of Appeals in Engel v. Vitale, 176 N.E.2d 579 (N.Y. 1961).In the New York justice system, the Supreme Court is the court of original jurisdiction (trial court) for matters of general jurisdiction. The State's high court is the New York Court of Appeals.Case Citation:Engel v. Vitale, 370 US 421 (1962)For more information, see Related Questions, below.
The US Supreme Court vote was split 6-1; Justice Potter Stewart dissented from the majority. Justices Byron White and Felix Frankfurter took no part in the case.Case Citation:Engel v. Vitale, 370 US 421 (1962)
It took a little more than three years to move Engel v. Vitale through the court system. The case was first filed in a New York state court in 1959, and subsequently went through three rounds of appeals, culminating with the US Supreme Court's decision on June 25, 1962.Case Citation:Engel v. Vitale, 370 US 421 (1962)
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Engel v. Vitale, 370 US 421 (1962)William J. Vitale, the respondent in the US Supreme Court case Engel v. Vitale, was President of the Board of Education of Union Free School District No. 9 (aka Herricks School District).For more information, see Related Questions, below.
Constitutional lawCase Citation:Engel v. Vitale, 370 US 421 (1962)
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Teaching religion in public schools was forbidden.
Engel v. Vitale, (1962) began in the Union Free School District No. 9 in Hyde Park, New York, and was originally heard in the New York State court system.More InformationEngel v. Vitale, (1962) was the first major constitutional challenge to the exercise of religion, specifically prayer, in public schools. The US Supreme Court held the practice to be a violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause.The case originated in the Union Free School District No. 9, in Hyde Park, New York, after parents of ten students objected to the New York Board of Regents' formal introduction of prayer into the schools and complained that directing the prayer to "Almighty God" was contradictory to their religious practices.Case Citation:Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962)For more information about Engel v. Vitale, and the Supreme Court's views about prayer in public schools, see Related Questions, below.
Engel v. Vitale, 370 US 421 (1962)The proper Italian pronunciation of Vitale is vee-TAHL-ay; however, the name has also been Anglicized as vih-TAHL-ee. The second version is typically used when referring to this case.For more information, see Related Questions, below.