Home > Great American Court Cases > Illinois ex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education

Legal Citation: 333 U.S. 203 (1948)

Appellant
Vashti McCollum

Appellee
Board of Education of School District No. 71, Champaign County, Illinois

Appellant's Claim
That a policy of permitting limited religious instruction in public schools violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

Chief Lawyer for Appellant
Walter F. Dodd

Chief Lawyers for Appellee
Owen Rall and John L. Franklin

Justices for the Court
Hugo Lafayette Black (writing for the Court), Harold Burton, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, Robert H. Jackson, Frank Murphy, Wiley Blount Rutledge, Fred Moore Vinson

Justices Dissenting
Stanley Forman Reed

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
8 March 1948

Decision
The Supreme Court held that the state could not permit religious...