Wallace v. Jaffree Smith v. Jaffree, 83-812
| Decision Date | 02 April 1984 |
| Docket Number | No.83-929,No. 83-812,83-812,83-929 |
| Citation | 104 S.Ct. 1704,80 L.Ed.2d 178,466 U.S. 924 |
| Parties | George C. WALLACE, Governor of the State of Alabama, et al. v. Ishmael JAFFREE et al. Douglas T. SMITH et al. v. Ishmael JAFFREE et al |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
In these cases probable jurisdiction is noted limited to Question 1 in the jurisdictional statements. The cases are consolidated and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument. The judgment with respect to the other issues presented by the appeals is affirmed.
In his amended complaint in this case, appellee sought (1) a judgment holding two statutory provisions, Ala.Code § 16-1-20.1, Ala.Code § 16-1-20.2, and certain allegedly State sanctioned, though not statutorily sanctioned, school prayer practices invalid under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, applicable to the States under the Fourteenth Amendment, and (2) an injunction against the enforcement of these statutory provisions and nonstatutory practices. The District Court dismissed the amended complaint. The Court of Appeals reversed the District Court's judgment in relevant part. It held the challenged statutory provisions and nonstatutory practices unconstitutional and ordered the District Court to enter an injunction. Appellants invoke this Court's appellate jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1254(2) regarding the Court of Appeals' judgments on the statutory provisions.
As I understand it, the order this Court enters today is a holding that Ala.Code § 16-1-20.2 is invalid as repugnant to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, applicable to the States under the Fourteenth Amendment. Moreover, the Court's order also affirms the judgment of the Court of Appeals insofar as it directed the District Court to enjoin the appellants from enforcing Ala.Code § 16-1-20.2. The judgment of the Court of Appeals concerning the nonstatutory school prayer practices is not within the appellate jurisdiction of this Court and is challenged in a petition for a writ of certiorari in No. 83-804. The Court denies that petition.
The Court's order noting probable jurisdiction is thus limited to the judgment of the Court of Appeals concerning the constitutionality of Ala.Code § 16-1-20.1 (1982). Appellants frame the constitutional questions presented by that provision as follows:
"Whether a state statute which permits, but does not require, teachers in public schools to observe up to a minute of non-activity for...
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