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ERIC Number: EJ334278
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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Establishment Clause Case Reveals Flaws in the Court System.
Flygare, Thomas J.
Phi Delta Kappan, v67 n8 p613-14 Apr 1986
Blasts the supreme court of Washington State for its inappropriate treatment of Larry Witters, a legally blind student denied state vocational rehabilitation funds because his intended Bible studies program supposedly violated the First Amendment's establishment clause. Even a United States Supreme Court reversal failed to end Witter's difficulties. (MLH)
Descriptors: Blindness, Court Litigation, Higher Education, State Aid, State Church Separation, State Courts, Theological Education, Vocational Rehabilitation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Inland Empire School of the Bible; Washington State Commission for the Blind; Witters v Washington State Commis for the Blind