Today in Supreme Court History: June 1, 1925

6/1/1925: Pierce v. Society of Sisters is decided.

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[Dr. Ed]

Again, who won and what was the score?

[ThePublius]

Pierce, Governor of Oregon, et al. v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, 268 U.S. 510 (1925), was an early 20th-century United States Supreme Court decision striking down an Oregon statute that required all children to attend public school.[1] The decision significantly expanded coverage of the Due Process Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to recognize personal civil liberties. The case has been cited as a precedent in more than 100 Supreme Court cases, including Roe v. Wade, and in more than 70 cases in the courts of appeals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce_v._Society_of_Sisters