In an opinion authored by Hugo L. Black, the Court held that respondent's decision to use its school system to facilitate recitation of the official prayer violated the Establishment Clause. Specifically, the policy breached the constitutional wall of separation between church and state.

Engel v. Vitale, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 25, 1962, that voluntary prayer in public schools violated the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment prohibition of a state establishment of religion.

Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools, due to violation of the First Amendment. [1] The ruling has been the subject of intense debate. [2] [3 ...

Facts and case summary for Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962) School-sponsored prayer in public schools is unconstitutional.

2017年6月22日 · Vitale is the 1962 Supreme Court case which declared school-sponsored prayer in public schools unconstitutional. Who were Engel and Vitale? Steven Engel was a parent in New Hyde Park, New York....

U.S. Reports: Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421. 1961. Periodical. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/usrep370421/>.

Engel v. Vitale was an important Supreme Court decision policing the boundaries of church and state. There, the New York State Board of Regents authorized public schools to recite a short, voluntary prayer at the beginning of each school day.

Engel (plaintiff) brought suit in New York state court arguing that the state’s prayer requirement violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The lower courts upheld the prayer as constitutional, and the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari.

Synopsis of Rule of Law. Mandating the recitation of a prayer at the beginning of a public school day is a violation of the Establishment Clause. Facts. The Board of Education of Union Free School in New Hyde Park, New York directed the school’s principal to have a prayer read aloud by each class, every morning, in the presence of a teacher.

Engel sued Vitale demanding that the school district discontinue public prayers; Engel lost; the trial court held that the prayer didn't violate the 1st Amendment because student had the right to remain silent or leave momentarily; Engel also lost in …