LEMON V. KURTZMAN

FACTS

• Pennsylvania and Rhode Island
• Giving state aid to teachers in private schools
• A group of individual taxpayers and religious liberty organizations filed suit

ISSUE

• Violate first amendment
• State financial aid available to "church related educational institutions"

HOLDING

• 8 to 0 for Lemon
• Court held that both programs violate the Establishment Clause

MAJORITY REASONING

• Create excessive entanglement between a religious existence and the state

CONCURRENCE

• Chief Justice Burger
• Lemon test

DISSENTING

• None

THE END