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Minersville School District v. Gobitis

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In Harlan Fiske Stone
…the lone dissenter when, in Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586 (1940), the court upheld a state ruling that children who were Jehovah’s Witnesses must join in saluting the American flag in public schools. This decision was overruled (1943) while Stone was chief justice. In Girouard v. United…
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West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette

In West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
On the heels of Minersville School District (Pennsylvania) v. Gobitis (1940), in which the Supreme Court upheld (8–1) the school district’s expulsion of two students for refusing to salute the flag on the basis of religious grounds (the children were Jehovah’s Witnesses), West Virginia enacted a rule in 1942…
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