515 U. S., at 847 (concurring opinion). See App. THOMAS, J., announced the judgment of the Court and delivered an opinion, in which REHNQUIST, C. J., and SCALIA and KENNEDY, JJ., joined. See Rosenberger, 515 U. S., at 848 (O'CONNOR, J., concurring) (discussing importance of private choice in Witters); Witters, 474 U. S., at 488 ("[T]he fact that aid goes to individuals means that the decision to support religious education is made by the individual, not by the State"); id., at 493 (O'CONNOR, J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment) ("The aid to religion at issue here is the result of petitioner's private choice"). of Servs. proper to presume that these school officials will act in good faith. 469, as amended, 20 U. S. C. §§ 7301-7373,1 has its origins in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), Pub. 809-814. Seven years before our decision in Meek, we held in Allen that a New York statute that authorized the lending of textbooks to students attending religious schools did not violate the. The witness said that government-funded instructional materials, too, were probably left with the religious schools when they were old, and that it was unclear whether library books were ever to be returned to the government. § 7372(a)(1). After the judge issued an order permanently excluding pervasively sectarian schools in the parish from receiving any Chapter 2 materials or equipment, he retired. School Dist. Id., at 130a-133a. Id., at 154a-155a. See, e. g., 509 U. S., at 18 (Blackmun, J., dissenting) ("Until now, the Court never has authorized a public employee to participate directly in religious indoctrination"); id., at 22 ("[G]overnment crosses the boundary when it furnishes the medium for communication of a religious message .... [A] state-employed sign-language interpreter would serve as the conduit for James' religious education, thereby assisting Salpointe [High School] in its mission of religious indoctrination"); id., at 23 (interpreter. See Part I-B, supra. Ibid. In that context, I was willing to presume that the religious school teacher who works throughout the day to advance the school's religious mission would also do so, at least to some extent, during the supplemental classes provided at the end of the day. See also Zobrest, supra, at 10, 12-13 (noting that no government funds reached religious school's coffers, aid did not relieve school of expense it otherwise would have assumed, and aid was not distributed to school but to the child). The safeguards on which she relies reduce to three: (1) signed assurances that Chapter 2 aid will be used only for secular, neutral, and nonideological purposes, (2) monitoring visits, and (3) the requirement that equipment be labeled as belonging to Chapter 2.14 As to the first, JUSTICE O'CONNOR rightly places little reliance on it. In any event, Chapter 2 contains both a secular content restriction, 20 U. S. C. § 7372(a)(1), and a prohibition on the use of aid for religious worship or instruction, § 8897, so Tilton provides no basis for upholding respondents' challenge. 509 U. S., at 10. As we indicated in Agostini, and have indicated elsewhere, the question whether governmental aid to religious schools results in governmental indoctrination is ultimately a question whether any religious indoctrination that occurs in those schools could reasonably be attributed to governmental action. Cf. Under the plurality's rule of neutrality, if a program met the first part of the Lemon enquiry, by declining to define a program's recipients by religion, it would automatically satisfy the second, in supposedly having no impermissible effect of aiding religion.19, Second, the plurality apparently assumes as a fact that equal amounts of aid to religious and nonreligious schools will have exclusively secular and equal effects, on both external perception and on incentives to attend different schools. App. for Cert. The Sandra Day O'Connor Institute does not in any way represent, warrant, or guarantee that the text below is accurate." Matter of Mitchell v Mitchell 2015 NY Slip Op 08896 Decided on December 3, 2015 Appellate Division, Third Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. Ibid. L. 97-35, 95 Stat. Corporation of Presiding Bishop of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints v. Amos, 483 U. S. 327, 337 (1987) ("For a law to have forbidden 'effects' under Lemon, it must be fair to say that the government itself has advanced religion through its own activities and influence"). Although "special Establishment Clause dangers" may exist when money is given directly to religious schools, see, e. g., Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of Univ. 392 U. S., at 238. books to somehow further religious instruction, see id., at 248, we had no occasion to say what the consequence would be were such use occurring and, more importantly, we think that this brief concluding comment cannot be read, especially after Zobrest (not to mention Witters, Mueller, and Agostini) as essential to the reasoning of Allen. to Pet. The risk of immediate diversion of Chapter 2 benefits had its complement in the risk of future diversion, against which the Jefferson Parish program had absolutely no protection. The shift from equipoise to secular was not, however, our last redefinition, for the Court again transformed the sense of "neutrality" in the 1980's. 20 Indeed, the opportunity for an individual to choose not to have her religious school receive government aid is just what at least one of the respondents seeks here. The plurality has already noted at length the ineffectiveness of the government's monitoring program. 330 U. S., at 15-16; id., at 25-26 (Jackson, J., dissenting); id., at 28-29, 31-32 (Rutledge, J., dissenting). Louisiana) requires all nonpublic schools to submit signed assurances that they will use Chapter 2 aid only to supplement and not to supplant non-Federal funds, and that the instructional materials and equipment "will only be used for secular, neutral and nonideological purposes." Agostini's second primary criterion for determining the effect of governmental aid is closely related to the first. At least three concerns have been expressed since the founding and run throughout our First Amendment jurisprudence. If that is so, they argue, we must also presume that religious school teachers will be unable to follow secular restrictions on the use of instructional materials and equipment lent to their schools by the government. of Servs. Similarly, in Wolman, we concluded that, "[i]n view of the impossibility of separating the secular education function from the sectarian, the state aid inevitably flows in part in support of the religious role of the schools." This stretch of doctrinal history leaves one point clear beyond peradventure: together with James Madison we have consistently understood the Establishment Clause to impose a substantive prohibition against public aid to religion and, hence, to the religious mission of sectarian schools. The Handbook of Policies and Regulations for Elementary Schools of the Archdiocese of New Orleans indicates that the operation of the Roman Catholic schools is governed by canon law. For more than 50 years, this Court has been attempting to draw these lines. See Agostini, supra, at 226-227 ("[N]o evidence has ever shown that any New York City Title I instructor teaching on parochial school premises attempted to inculcate religion in students"); Allen, supra, at 248 ("Nothing in this record supports the proposition that all textbooks, whether they deal with mathematics, physics, foreign languages, history, or literature, are used by the parochial schools to teach religion"). Wolman v. Walter, 433 U. S. 229, 254 (1977) (quoting Lemon and noting difficulty of religious teachers' remaining "'religiously neutral' "). Respondents note that in Agostini we did not overrule that portion of Ball holding the Community Education program unconstitutional. Accordingly, the Court need ask only whether Chapter 2, as applied in Jefferson Parish, results in governmental indoctrination or defines its recipients by reference to religion. by Edward McGlynn Gaffney, Jr., and David J. Hessler; for the AVI CHAI Foundation by Nathan Lewin, Julia E. Guttman, and Jody Manier Kris; for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty by Kevin J. Hasson and Eric W Treene; for the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights by Robert P. George; for the Knights of Columbus by Kevin T. Baine and Emmet T. Flood; for the United States Catholic Conference by Mark E. Chopko, John A. Liekweg, and Jeffrey Hunter Moon; and for the Washington Legal Foundation by Daniel J. Popeo and R. Shawn Gunnarson. Madison's and Jefferson's now familiar words establish clearly that liberty of personal conviction requires freedom from coercion to support religion,l and this means that the government can compel no aid to fund it. Justia BlawgSearch Search Search for: "Helms v Helms" Results 1 - 20 of 314. of Ewing, 330 U. S. 1 (1947), we have consistently struggled to apply these simple words in the context of governmental aid to religious schools.4 As we admitted in Tilton v. Richardson, 403 U. S. 672 (1971), "candor compels the acknowledgment that we can only dimly perceive the boundaries of permissible government activity in this sensitive area." secondary religious schools that raise the most serious Establishment Clause concerns. No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance. If the government is offering assistance to recipients who provide, so to speak, a broad range of indoctrination, the government itself is not thought responsible for any particular indoctrination. Nor does the plurality explain why it places so much weight on Regan's apparent departure from the no-supplanting rule while it ignores Regan's core reasoning that the testing aid there was permissible because, in direct contrast to Levitt, the aid was not divertible. Based on record evidence and long experience, we have concluded that religious teaching in such schools is at the core of the instructors' individual and personal obligations, cf. Our subsequent reexamination of Everson and Allen, beginning in Nyquist and culminating in Mueller and most recently in Agostini, recast neutrality as a concept of "evenhandedness.". (noting no aid to schools was involved in Allen). Thus, the Wolman Court never justified the inconsistent treatment it accorded the lending of textbooks and the lending of instructional materials and equipment based on the items' reasonable divertibility. Accordingly, for purposes of deciding whether Chapter 2, as applied in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, violates the Establishment Clause, we need ask only whether the program results in governmental indoctrination or defines its recipients by reference to religion. 108a. 521 U. S., at 222. Pp. 23 The trial judge found that the Roman Catholic schools in question operate under the general supervision and authority of the Archbishop of New Orleans and their parish pastors, and are located next to parish churches and sometimes a rectory or convent. Accordingly, I see no reason to affirm the judgment below and thereby declare a properly functioning aid program unconstitutional. App. Although our case law has consistently mentioned it even in recent years, we have not struck down an aid program in reliance on this factor since 1985, in Aguilar and Ball. The issue is not diverti-. by Michael D. Hess, Leonard J. Koerner, and Edward F. X. Hart; for the American Center for Law and Justice by Jay Alan Sekulow, John P. Tuskey, Walter W Weber, Colby M. May, and Vincent P. McCarthy; for the Arizona Council for Academic Private Education et al. 521 U. S., at 234. See Employment Div., Dept. 5 Indeed, two of the dissenters in Allen agreed with the majority on this method of analysis, asking whether the books at issue were similar enough to fire and police protection. educational function of religious schools is invalid," id., at 225, had rejected a premise of Meek, but that court nevertheless concluded that Agostini had neither directly overruled Meek and Wolman nor rejected their distinction between textbooks and other in-kind aid. See, e. g., Agostini, supra, at 228, 231-232; Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School Dist., 509 U. S. 1, 10 (1993); Witters v. Washington Dept. These filings and docket sheets should not be considered findings of fact or liability, nor do they necessarily reflect the view of Justia. To the extent this simple description of Allen is even correct, it certainly does not constitute an actual holding that the Establishment Clause prohibits the government from lending any divertible aid to religious schools. App. The use records for audiovisual materials at one religious high school revealed that Chapter 2 funds were essential to the school's educational process, id., at 187a, and a different school, as already noted, used a Chapter 2 computer to support its computer network when its own computers failed, id., at 77a. A concern for divertibility, as opposed to improper content, is misplaced not only because it fails to explain why the sort of aid that we have allowed is permissible, but also because it is boundless-enveloping all aid, no matter how trivial-and thus has only the most attenuated (if any) link to any realistic concern for preventing an "establishment of religion." Agostini, supra, at 232-233 (examining a variety of factors). Less than three years after Wolman, we explained that Meek did not, despite appearances, hold that "all loans of secular instructional material and equipment inescapably have the effect of direct advancement of religion." Id., at 135a, 137a-138a. Given the important similarities between the Chapter 2 program here and the Title I program at issue in Agostini, respondents' Establishment Clause challenge must fail. For support, he quotes my concurring opinion in Bowen and the statement therein that "any use of public funds to promote religious doctrines violates the Establishment Clause." He relied primarily on Meek v. Pittenger, 421 U. S. 349, and Wolman v. Walter, 433 U. S. 229, in which programs providing many of the same sorts of materials and equipment as does Chapter 2 were struck down, even though programs providing for the loan of public school textbooks to religious schools were upheld. Similarly, we doubt it would be unconstitutional if, to modify Witters' hypothetical, see 474 U. S., at 486487; supra, at 816, a government employer directly sent a portion of an employee's paycheck to a religious institution designated by that employee pursuant to a neutral charitable program. See post, at 903, 906910.17 In any event, for reasons we discussed in Part II-B-2. 22 The Jefferson Parish Chapter 2 program included 46 nonpublic schools, of which 41 were religiously affiliated. The tax deduction for educational expenses that we upheld in Mueller was, in these respects, the same as the tuition grant in Witters. This characteristic of both programs made them less like a direct subsidy, which would be impermissible under the Establishment Clause, and more akin to the government issuing a paycheck to an employee who, in turn, donates a portion of that check to a religious institution. § 7372(c)(1). Sandin v. Connor, 515 U.S. 472,480 (1995) (quoting Hewitt v. Helms, 459 U.S. 460, 468 (1983)). of Ewing,3 that “state benefits provided to all citizens without regard to religion are constitutional.” 46 F. 3d, at 1465. to Pet. 2d 660, 2000 U.S. Brief Fact Summary. Neither a state nor the Federal Government can, openly or secretly, participate in the affairs of any religious organizations or groups and vice versa. Chief Judge Heebe relied primarily on Meek v. Pittenger, 421 U. S. 349 (1975), and Wolman v. Walter, 433 U. S. 229 (1977), in which we held unconstitutional programs that provided many of the same sorts of materials and equipment as does Chapter 2. The threat to Establishment Clause values was accordingly at its highest in the circumstances of this case. pp. In the 1986-1987 fiscal year, for example, 44% of the money budgeted for private schools in Jefferson Parish was spent by LEA's for acquiring library and media materials, and 48% for instructional equipment. LEA's and SEA's must offer assistance to both public and private schools (although any private school must be nonprofit). (discussing history of rejection of support for religious schools); McCollum, supra, at 214-217 (opinion of Frankfurter, J. In the former example, if the religious school uses the aid to inculcate religion in its students, it is reasonable to say that the government has communicated a message of endorsement. I therefore would not presume that the Chapter 2 aid will advance, or be perceived to advance, the school's religious mission. See ante, at 832-834. Private decisionmaking controls because of the per capita allocation scheme, and those decisions are independent because of the program's neutrality. Tilton, 403 U. S., at 683 (plurality opinion) ("If, at the end of 20 years, the building is, for example, converted into a chapel or otherwise used to promote religious interests, the original federal grant will in part have the effect of advancing religion. 2d 660, 2000 U.S. LEXIS 4485 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information. In this context, I find it easier to believe that a religious school teacher can abide by the secular restrictions placed on the government assistance. Finally, any aid, with or without content, is "divertible" in the sense that it allows schools to "divert" resources. Three Terms ago, we held in Agostini v. Felton, 521 U. S. 203 (1997), that Title I, as applied in New York City, did not violate the Establishment Clause. With her on the briefs were Solicitor General Waxman, Acting Assistant Attorney General Ogden, Paul R. Q. Wolfson, Michael Jay Singer, and Howard S. Scher. 521 U. S., at 225. See n. 8, supra. Respondents inexplicably make no effort to address Chapter 2 under the Agostini test. Agostini also acknowledged that what the dissenters in Zobrest had charged was essentially true: Zobrest did effect a "shift ... in our Establishment Clause law." Second, we have identified two important characteristics of the method of distributing aid: directness or indirectness of distribution and distribution by genuinely independent choice. We there explained that "we have departed from the rule relied on in Ball that all government aid that directly assists the educational function of religious schools is invalid." Self-reporting is the sole source for the records of use. In Zobrest, supra, at 12, the Court spoke of the substantiality test in Meek, noting that "[d]isabled children, not sectarian schools, are the primary beneficiaries of the [Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA)]; to the extent sectarian schools benefit at all from the IDEA, they are only incidental beneficiaries.". Post, at 911, n. 28. Further, respondents' formalistic line breaks down in the application to real-world programs. Justia. Meek, supra, at 384 (concurring in part and dissenting in part). But the potential for impermissible fostering of religion is present. (In Agostini, by contrast, monitors visited each classroom-unannounced-once a month, and the teachers received specific training in what activities were permitted. Subsequent cases carried the point forward. _____ ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES. Simple on its face, it appears to take evenhandedness neutrality and in practical terms promote it to a single and sufficient test for the establishment constitutionality of school aid. Id., at 210 (quoting 20 U. S. C. § 6321(a)(2)). CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. Ante, at 864-865 (opinion concurring in judgment). of Grand Rapids v. Ball, 473 U. S. 373, 396 (1985), but we have never delineated the distinction's contours or held that it is constitutionally required. Nor does Chapter 2 define its recipients by reference to religion. Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of Univ. (b) Under Agostini, the Court asks whether the government acted with the purpose of advancing or inhibiting religion and whether the aid has the "effect" of doing so. If, as the plurality contends, a per-capita-aid program is identical in relevant constitutional respects to a true private-choice program, then there is no reason that, under the plurality's reasoning, the government should be precluded from providing direct money payments. to teach classes supplemental to those offered during the normal schoolday. The Fifth Circuit therefore concluded that Meek and Wolman controlled, and thus it held Chapter 2 unconstitutional. See supra, at 820. Conflicting Rulings in Cases Brought Under the Helms-Burton Act. Id., at 143a. § 2254 is DISMISSED. ll1a). 14-17. Yet that is precisely the remedy respondents. Considering Chapter 2 in light of our more recent case law, we conclude that it neither results in religious indoctrination by the government nor defines its recipients by reference to religion. Memorial and Remonstrance ~ 3, reprinted in Everson v. Board of Ed. Meek, 421 U. S., at 363; Wolman, 433 U. S., at 249-250. 133a. § 7371(b). Government officials themselves admitted that there was no way to tell whether instructional materials had been diverted, id., at 118a, 139a, 144a-145a, and, as the plurality notes, the only screening mechanism in the library book scheme was a review of titles by a single government official, ante, at 832-833, n. 15; see App. In actuality, however, the record indicates that nothing in the. We explained: "Any aid ... that ultimately flows to religious institutions does so only as a result of the genuinely independent and private choices of aid recipients. Bowen, 487 U. S., at 621; see also id., at 623 (O'CONNOR, J., concurring). Like respondents, JUSTICE SOUTER also relies on Meek and Wolman in finding the character of the Chapter 2 aid constitutionally problematic. 14 Many of the other safeguards on which JUSTICE O'CONNOR relies are safeguards against improper content, not against diversion. Reexamining Everson's paradigm cases to derive a prescriptive guideline, we first determined that "neutral" aid was secular, nonideological, or unrelated to religious education. of Ewing, 330 U. S. 1 (1947) (upholding reimbursement to parents for costs of busing their children to public or private school). Monitoring by the Jefferson Parish LEA is similarly ineffective. None requires application of a divertibility rule in the context of this case. The plurality is candid in pointing out the extent of actual diversion of Chapter 2 aid to religious use in the case before us, ante, at 832-834, and n. 17, and equally candid in saying it does not matter, ante, at 820-825, 833-834. For example, no matter what secular criteria the government employs in selecting a film projector to lend to a religious school, school officials can always divert that projector to re-. We held the statute unconstitutional only to the extent that a university's "obligation not to use the facility for sectarian instruction or religious worship ... appear[ed] to expire at the end of 20 years." See, e. g., ante, at 832-833, n. 15; post, at 906-907. We granted certiorari. To the extent our decisions in Meek v. Pittenger, 421 U. S. 349 (1975), and Wolman v. Walter, 433 U. S. 229 (1977), are inconsistent with the Court's judgment today, I agree that those decisions should be overruled. nation, (2) whether the program defines its recipients by reference to religion, and (3) whether the aid creates an excessive entanglement between government and religion, id., at 234. Evenhandedness of distribution as between religious and secular beneficiaries is a relevant factor, but not a sufficiency test of constitutionality. The Fifth Circuit thus faced a dilemma between, on the one hand, the Ninth Circuit's holding and analysis in Walker and our subsequent decisions in Rosenberger and Agostini, and, on the other hand, our holdings in Meek and Wolman. Rosenberger, supra, at 847 (O'CONNOR, J., concurring). Justice Blackmun, writing in Roemer, first called such a "general" or evenhanded program "neutral," in speaking of "facial neutrality" as a relevant consideration in determining whether there was an Establishment Clause violation. See ante, at 815, n. 7. Id., at 146a. In addition, the program in Witters was neutral. The materials-and-equipment program in Wolman was essentially identical, except that the State, in an effort to comply with Meek, see Wolman, 433 U. S., at 233, 250, loaned the aid to the students. View "Mitchell v. Brooks" on Justia Law. What is more important is the view revealed in the plurality opinion, which espouses a new conception of neutrality as a practically sufficient test of constitutionality that would, if adopted by the Court, eliminate enquiry into a law's effects. Federal funds were provided to elementary and secondary school students under Chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981. These "benefits of public welfare legislation," id., at 16, extended in modern times to virtually every member of the population and valuable to every person and association, were the paradigms of advantages that religious organiza-. Judge Livaudais also relied heavily on a 1995 decision of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Walker v. San Francisco Unified School Dist., 46 F.3d 1449, upholding Chapter 2 on facts that he found "virtually indistinguishable." The Ninth Circuit also relied,id., at 1467, on our observation inBoard of Ed. Respondents contend that Agostini should be limited to its facts, and point specifically to the following statement from my separate opinion in Ball as the basis for retaining a presumption of religious inculcation for instructional materials and equipment: "When full-time parochial school teachers receive public funds to teach secular courses to their parochial school students under parochial school supervision, I agree that the program has the perceived and actual effect of advancing the religious aims of the church-related schools. Finally, at least some of our prior cases striking down direct payments involved serious concerns about whether the payments were truly neutral. § 2254 is DISMISSED. In addition, private schools may not acquire control of Chapter 2 funds or title to Chapter 2. materials, equipment, or property. See id., at 139a, 145a, 146a-147a (similar). Although JUSTICE O'CONNOR attributes limited significance to the evidence of divertibility and actual diversion, she also recognizes that it exists. The majority, to be sure, cited the provision for books to all schoolchildren, regardless of religion, 392 U. S., at 243, just as the Everson majority had spoken of the transportation reimbursement as going to all, 330 U. S., at 16, in each case for the sake of analogy to the provision of police and fire services.5 But the stress was on the practical significance of the actual benefits received by the schools. The facts most obviously relevant to the Chapter 2 scheme. See, e. g., Lynch v. Donnelly, 465 U. S. 668, 692 (1984) (O'CONNOR, J., concurring). Lemon, 403 U. S., at 619-620 (noting that safeguards and accounting inspections required to prevent government funds from supporting religious education will cause impermissible entanglement); Roemer, 426 U. S., at 753-757 (approving segregated funds after finding recipients not pervasively religious); Ball, 473 U. S., at 392-393 (noting that "[w]ith but one exception, our subsequent cases have struck down attempts by States to make payments out of. We rejected that very assumption, however, in Agostini. To the plurality there is nothing wrong with aiding a school's religious mission; the only question is whether religious teaching obtains its tax support under a formally evenhanded criterion of distribution. The second criterion requires a court to consider whether an aid program "define[s] its recipients by reference to religion." Finally, in addition to relying on our decision in Zobrest and the Ninth Circuit's decision in Walker, Judge Livaudais invoked Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of Univ. 2d 660 (2000) Brief Fact Summary. Had we believed that the divertibility of secular aid was sufficient to call the aid program into question, there would have been no need for the remand we ordered and no basis for the reversal. Third, government establishment of religion is inextricably linked with conflict. State and local officials in Jefferson Parish admitted that nothing prevented the Chapter 2 computers from being used for religious instruction, id., at 102a, 118a, 164a-166a, and although they knew of methods of monitoring computer usage, such as locking the computer functions, id., at 165a-166a, they implemented no particular policies, instituted no systems, and employed no technologies to minimize the likelihood of diversion to religious uses,26 id., at 118a, 165a-166a. 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