Agostini v. Felton
Agostini v. Felton, 521 U.S. 203 (1997), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. In this case, the Court overruled its decision in Aguilar v. Felton (1985), now finding that it was not a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment for a state-sponsored education initiative to allow public school teachers to instruct at religious schools, so long as the material was secular and neutral in nature and no "excessive entanglement" between government and religion was apparent. This case is noteworthy in a broader sense as a sign of evolving judicial standards surrounding the First Amendment, and the changes that have occurred in modern Establishment Clause jurisprudence.
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Agostini v. Felton
Agostini v. Felton, 521 U.S. 203 (1997), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. In this case, the Court overruled its decision in Aguilar v. Felton (1985), now finding that it was not a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment for a state-sponsored education initiative to allow public school teachers to instruct at religious schools, so long as the material was secular and neutral in nature and no "excessive entanglement" between government and religion was apparent. This case is noteworthy in a broader sense as a sign of evolving judicial standards surrounding the First Amendment, and the changes that have occurred in modern Establishment Clause jurisprudence.
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Agostini v. Felton, 521 U.S. 203
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Reverses Aguilar v. Felton in ...... ent and religion was apparent.
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Establishment Clause of the U.S. Const. amends. I
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Agostini v. Felton
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Aguilar v. Felton
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Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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Agostini v. Felton, 521 U.S. 2 ...... lishment Clause jurisprudence.
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Agostini v. Felton
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Rachel Agostini et al. v. Betty Louise Felton et al.
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