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'State ex rel. Weiss et al. v. District Board of School District No. 8 of the City of Edgerton, 76 Wis. 177 (1890), colloquially referred to as the Edgerton Bible Case', was a Wisconsin Supreme Court case in which ...

Bible reading in schools
By the time of the Edgerton case, similar legal challenges involving the use of the Bible in public schools had been made in states including Maine, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Iowa. The first of these cases was Donahoe v. Richards, which was decided in the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in 1854. An Irish-American Catholic student had been expelled from her public school for refusing to participate in an exercise using the Protestant Bible. The girl had offered to complete the exercise using the Douay translation instead, a request which was denied.


 * Donahoe v. Richards
 * Spiller v. Inhabitants of Woburn
 * Board of Education of Cincinnati v. Minor et al.
 * Moore v. Monroe