United States First Circuit

The Equal Protection Clause does not require defendant (state of Maine) to extend tuition payments to private sectarian secondary schools on behalf of students who reside in a school district that makes such payments available on a limited basis to private nonsectarian secondary schools.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/25/2004
• Published 10/25/2004

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, SELYA, Circuit Judge, and SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen C. Whiting, with whom The Whiting Law Firm, P.A. was on brief, for appellants., Robert H. Chanin, Andrew D. Roth, Laurence Gold, Bredhoff & Kaiser, P.L.L.C., Elliott M. Mincberg, Judith E. Schaeffer, Ayesha N. Khan, Zachary L. Heiden, Jeffrey A. Thaler, and Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, P.A. on consolidated brief for Maine Education Association, National Education Association, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, People for the American Way Foundation, and Maine Civil Liberties Union, amici curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul Stern, Deputy Attorney General, with whom G. Steven Rowe, Attorney General, William H. Laubenstein, III, and Sarah A. Forster, Assistant Attorneys General, were on brief, for appellees.