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Epperson v. Arkansas 393 U.S. 97

Epperson v. Arkansas 393 U.S. 97

393 U.S. 97 | 1968-11-12

Epperson v. Arkansas

393 U.S. 97

Epperson v. Arkansas (No. 7)

Argued: October 16, 1968
Decided: November 12, 1968

Syllabus

Appellant Epperson, an Arkansas public school teacher, brought this action for declaratory and injunctive relief challenging the constitutionality of Arkansas' "anti-evolution" statute. That statute makes it unlawful for a teacher in any state supported school or university to teach or to use a textbook that teaches "that mankind ascended or descended from a lower order of animals." The State Chancery Court held the statute an abridgment of free speech violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments....