Back to category: Politics

Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper.

Legal Brief: Yoder v. The State of Wisconsin

State of Wisconsin v. Yoder
406 U.S. 205(1972)
Legal Brief



FACTS: State of Wisconsin v. Yoder represents a case challenging the Compulsory Education Law of Wisconsin. The Law of the State of Wisconsin states that children are mandated to attend school until the age of 16. In this case, three Amish men from two separate Amish sects living within the same community, brought their concerns of preserving their faith and community forward. A common legal question binds the plaintiffs: Whether, under the First and Fourteenth Amendments and The Free Exercise Clause, compulsory secondary education enacted in the Amish Community will violate the religious rights of these people.

LEGAL QUESTION: Does compulsory secondary education enacted in the Amish Community, although against their personal and community religious beliefs and viewed as a detriment to their children at that crucial and delicate time in adolescence, will violate the religious rights of this group of people.
...

Posted by: Sandeep Jador

Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper.