Jonas Yoder and Wallace Miller, both members of the Old Order Amish religion, and Adin Yutzy, a member of the Conservative Amish Mennonite Church, were prosecuted under a Wisconsin law that required all children to attend public schools until age 16.

Wisconsin v. Yoder: Under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, a state law requiring that children attend school past eighth grade violates the parents' constitutional right to direct the religious upbringing of their children.

1972年5月15日 · Wisconsin v. Yoder, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on May 15, 1972, ruled (7–0) that Wisconsin’s compulsory school attendance law was unconstitutional as applied to the Amish, because it violated their First Amendment right to free exercise of religion.

In Wisconsin v. Yoder , three members of the Amish faith challenged the Wisconsin law under the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause. The Amish families argued that the Wisconsin law was contrary to their religious beliefs, which forbade parents from sending their children to school after the eighth grade because it would endanger their ...

2018年11月12日 · Members of the Amish religion, including Jonas Yoder, refused to send their children to school beyond the 8 th grade for religious reasons. Because Wisconsin law compels school attendance for all children until age 16, Yoder and the other respondents were tried and convicted for violating the law.

Yoder, 1971 U.S. LEXIS 1879, 402 U.S. 994, 91 S. Ct. 2173, 29 L. Ed. 2d 160 (U.S. May 24, 1971) Brief Fact Summary. Several Amish families appealed a decision convicting them of failing to send their children to school until the age of 16 based upon Freedom of …

2009年1月1日 · The landmark Supreme Court decision in Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) addressed the constitutional balance a Wisconsin compulsory education statute and the rights of the Old Order Amish religion and the Conservative Amish Mennonite Church to educate their children in conformity with their religious beliefs.

[Wisconsin’s compulsory school-attendance law requires children under the age of sixteen to attend public or private school. Three Amish families refused to send their children, aged fourteen to fifteen, to public school or private school after completion of the eighth grade.] A feature of Old Order Amish communities is their devotion to a ...

The state of Wisconsin convicted three members of Old Order Amish and Mennonite communities for violating the state’s compulsory education law, which requires attendance at school until the age of 16. Frieda Yoder and two other students had …

State of Wisconsin. Petitioner, v. Jonas Yoder et al. On Writ of Certiorari to the Su-preme Court of Wisconsin. [April —, 1972] MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court. On petition of the State of Wisconsin, we granted the writ in this case to review a decision of the Wiscon-sin Supreme Court holding that respondents ...