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Meek v. Pittenger

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Overruled
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
421 U.S. 349
Decided
Confirmed treatments
2
Flagged citations read
26 of 26
Citing cases (total)
26
Treatment dates
1997–2000
Overruled
A reviewed court has overruled this case. Meek v. Pittenger was overruled by the Supreme Court in Mitchell v. Helms as to its prohibition on lending secular instructional materials and equipment to religious schools. Agostini v. Felton had already abandoned Meek's presumption that public employees working at those schools inevitably caused religious indoctrination or a symbolic union of church and state.
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Meek's approval of secular textbook loans was not rejected. All 26 flagged citations have been read. The two confirmed treatments are listed below.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

26 later cases cite Meek v. Pittenger; 26 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled

  • The Supreme Court overruled Meek's bar on lending instructional materials and equipment to religious schools where it conflicted with the Court's approval of the Chapter 2 aid program.

    Mitchell v. Helms · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    Accordingly, we hold that Chapter 2 is not a law respecting an establishment of religion. Jefferson Parish need not exclude religious schools from its Chapter 2 program.19 To the extent that Meek and Wolman conflict with this holding, we overrule them.
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Abrogated

  • The Supreme Court abandoned Meek's presumption that public employees working at religious schools inevitably cause state-sponsored indoctrination or a symbolic union of church and state.

    Agostini v. Felton · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    First, we have abandoned the presumption erected in Meek and Ball that the placement of public employees on parochial school grounds inevitably results in the impermissible effect of state-sponsored indoctrination or constitutes a symbolic union between government and religion.
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