Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet

Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 30, 1994 Decided June 27, 1994
Full case name	Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District, Petitioner v. Louis Grumet, et al.
Citations	512 U.S. 687 (more) 114 S. Ct. 2481; 129 L. Ed. 2d 546; 1994 U.S. LEXIS 4830; 62 U.S.L.W. 4665; 94 Cal. Daily Op. Service 4818; 94 Daily Journal DAR 8917; 8 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 359
Case history
Prior	Grumet v. New York Educ. Dept., 151 Misc. 2d 60, 579 N.Y.S.2d 1004 (Sup. Ct. 1992); affirmed sub. nom., Grumet v. Bd. of Educ. of the Kiryas Joel Vil. School Dist., 187 A.D.2d 16, 592 N.Y.S.2d 123 (App. Div., 3d Dept. 1992); affirmed, 81 N.Y.2d 518, 601 N.Y.S.2d 61, 618 N.E.2d 94 (1993); cert. granted, 510 U.S. 989 (1993).
Holding
A New York statute that carved out a school district that followed village lines, which village was almost entirely composed of members of one religious group, was held to violate the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices Harry Blackmun · John P. Stevens Sandra Day O'Connor · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · David Souter Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Case opinions
Majority	Souter (parts I, II-B, II-C, III), joined by Blackmun, Stevens, O'Connor, Ginsburg
Plurality	Souter (parts II (introduction), II-A), joined by Blackmun, Stevens, Ginsburg
Concurrence	Blackmun
Concurrence	Stevens, joined by Blackmun, Ginsburg
Concurrence	O'Connor
Concurrence	Kennedy
Dissent	Scalia, joined by Rehnquist, Thomas
Laws applied
U.S. Const., amend. I

Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet, 512 U.S. 687 (1994), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of a school district created with boundaries that matched that of a religious community – in this case, the Satmar community of Kiryas Joel, New York.^[1] The case was argued by Nathan Lewin on behalf of Kiryas Joel, Julie Mereson on behalf of the State of New York, and Jay Worona on behalf of the respondents.^[1]