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School District of Grand Rapids v. Ball

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Overruled
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
473 U.S. 373
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
44 of 44
Citing cases (total)
44
Treatment dates
1997
Overruled
A reviewed court has overruled this case. School District of Grand Rapids v. Ball was overruled on its presumption that public employees teaching at religious schools necessarily advance religion. Agostini v. Felton expressly rejected that premise to the extent it conflicted with later Establishment Clause law, as listed below.
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The Supreme Court later described Agostini in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization as “overruling Aguilar v. Felton ... and School Dist. of Grand Rapids v. Ball.” All 44 flagged citations have been read.

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.

44 later cases cite School District of Grand Rapids v. Ball; 44 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 in part

  • The Supreme Court rejected Ball's presumption that public teachers working on religious school grounds inevitably promote religion or create a symbolic union of church and state, and overruled Ball to that extent.

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

    We therefore overrule Ball and Aguilar to the extent those decisions are inconsistent with our current understanding of the Establishment Clause.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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