Zorach v. Clauson

Zorach v. Clauson
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 31 – February 1, 1952 Decided April 28, 1952
Full case name	Zorach, et al. v. Clauson, et al., constituting the Board of Education of the City of New York, et al.
Citations	343 U.S. 306 (more) 72 S. Ct. 679; 96 L. Ed. 954; 1952 U.S. LEXIS 2773
Case history
Prior	303 N.Y. 161, 100 N.E.2d 463 (1951); probable jurisdiction noted, 72 S. Ct. 232 (1951).
Holding
Released time programs are acceptable if the instruction takes place away from the school campus, for 1 hour per week, and with no public funding.
Court membership
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson Associate Justices Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas Robert H. Jackson · Harold H. Burton Tom C. Clark · Sherman Minton
Case opinions
Majority	Douglas, joined by Vinson, Reed, Burton, Clark, Minton
Dissent	Black
Dissent	Frankfurter
Dissent	Jackson
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. I

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Zorach v. Clauson

Zorach v. Clauson, 343 U.S. 306 (1952), was a release time case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a school district to allow students to leave the public school for part of the day to receive off-site religious instruction did not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.^[1]