| bgcolor="6699FF" | Minersville School District v. Gobitis |
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Supreme Court of the United States |
bgcolor="6699FF" | Argued April 25, 1940
Decided June 3, 1940 |
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| valign="top"|Full case name: | valign="top"|''Minersville School District, Board of Education of Minersville School District, et al. v. Walter Gobitis et al. |
| valign="top"|Citations: | valign="top"|310 U.S. 586; 60 S. Ct. 1010; 84 L. Ed. 1375; 1940 U.S. LEXIS 1136; 17 Ohio Op. 417; 127 A.L.R. 1493 |
| valign="top"|Prior history: | valign="top"|Judgment for plaintiffs, injunction granted, 24 F. Supp. 271 (E.D. Pa. 1938); affirmed, 108 F.2d 683 (3rd Cir. 1939); certiorari granted, 309 U.S. 645 (1940) |
| valign="top"|Subsequent history: | valign="top"|none | } |
| bgcolor="6699FF" | Holding |
| The First Amendment does not require States to excuse public school students from saluting the American flag and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance on religious grounds. Third Circuit reversed. |
| bgcolor="6699FF" | Court membership |
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| Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes |
| Associate Justices James McReynolds, Harlan Fiske Stone, Owen Roberts, Hugo Black, Stanley Reed, Felix Frankfurter, William Douglas, Frank Murphy | } |
| bgcolor="6699FF" | Case opinions |
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| Majority by: Frankfurter |
| Joined by: Roberts, Black, Reed, Douglas, Murphy |
| Concurrence by: McReynolds |
| Dissent by: Stone | } |
| bgcolor="6699FF" | Laws applied |
| U.S. Const. Amend. I |
| bgcolor="FF0000" | Overruled by |
| West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943)'' |