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WISCONSIN v. YODER, 406 U.S. 205

WISCONSIN v. YODER, 406 U.S. 205

No. 70-110 | 1972-05-15

U.S. Supreme Court
WISCONSIN v. YODER, 406 U.S. 205 (1972)
406 U.S. 205
WISCONSIN v. YODER ET AL. 
CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 

No. 70-110. 

Argued December 8, 1971 
Decided May 15, 1972 

Respondents, members of the Old Order Amish religion and the Conservative Amish Mennonite Church, were convicted of violating Wisconsin's compulsory school-attendance law (which requires a child's school attendance until age 16) by declining to send their children to public or private school after they had graduated from the eighth grade. The evidence showed that the Amish provide continuing informal vocational...