Abington Township School District v. Schempp (consolidated with Murray v. Curlett), 374 U.S. 203 (1963), was a United States Supreme Court

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 case argued on February 27–28, 1963 and decided on June 17, 1963. In the case, the Court decided 8–1 in favor of the respondent, Edward Schempp, and declared school-sponsored Bible reading in public schools in the United States to be unconstitutional.
The Abington case began when Edward Schempp, a Unitarian Universalist and a resident of Abington Township, Pennsylvania

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, filed suit against the Abington School District

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 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

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 to prohibit the enforcement of a Pennsylvania

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 state law that required his children, specifically Ellory Schempp, to hear and sometimes read portions of the Bible as part of their public school education.