Zelman v. Simmons-Harris

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Establishment Clause case United States Supreme Court case education law case landmark case

Zelman v. Simmons-Harris is a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld a school voucher program, ruling that public funds could be used for tuition at religious schools without violating the Establishment Clause.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris canonical	3
Zelman, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Ohio, et al. v. Simmons-Harris et al.	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Establishment Clause case ⓘ United States Supreme Court case ⓘ education law case ⓘ landmark case ⓘ
areaOfLaw	church–state relations ⓘ constitutional law ⓘ education law ⓘ
arguedDate	February 20, 2002 ⓘ
chiefJusticeAtDecision	William H. Rehnquist ⓘ
citation	536 U.S. 639 ⓘ
city	Cleveland ⓘ
constitutionalProvision	Establishment Clause ⓘ First Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
court	Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ
decisionDate	June 27, 2002 ⓘ
decisionType	5–4 decision ⓘ
dissentingJustices	David H. Souter ⓘ John Paul Stevens ⓘ Ruth Bader Ginsburg ⓘ Stephen G. Breyer ⓘ
docketNumber	00-1751 ⓘ
fullCaseName	Zelman v. Simmons-Harris self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Zelman, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Ohio, et al. v. Simmons-Harris et al.
holding	Public funds may be used for tuition at religious schools under a neutral program of private choice ⓘ The Ohio school voucher program does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment ⓘ
issue	Whether a school voucher program that includes religious schools violates the Establishment Clause ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
legalTestApplied	private choice test ⓘ
lowerCourtCitation	234 F.3d 945 (6th Cir. 2000) ⓘ
lowerCourtDecision	Sixth Circuit held the voucher program unconstitutional ⓘ
majorityJustices	Anthony M. Kennedy ⓘ Antonin Scalia ⓘ Clarence Thomas ⓘ Sandra Day O’Connor ⓘ William H. Rehnquist ⓘ
majorityOpinionBy	William H. Rehnquist ⓘ
originatingJurisdiction	United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ⓘ
precedentFor	constitutionality of school voucher programs including religious schools ⓘ
programChallenged	Ohio Pilot Project Scholarship Program ⓘ
programCharacteristics	aid reached religious schools only as a result of independent decisions of parents ⓘ program was neutral with respect to religion ⓘ
relatedConcept	school choice ⓘ school vouchers ⓘ separation of church and state ⓘ
result	school voucher program upheld ⓘ
reversed	United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ⓘ
state	Ohio ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
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- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
Description of subject: Zelman v. Simmons-Harris is a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld a school voucher program, ruling that public funds could be used for tuition at religious schools without violating the Establishment Clause.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Establishment Clause → keyCase → Zelman v. Simmons-Harris ⓘ

Zelman v. Simmons-Harris → fullCaseName → Zelman v. Simmons-Harris self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Zelman, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Ohio, et al. v. Simmons-Harris et al.

Agostini v. Felton → subsequentCitationIn → Zelman v. Simmons-Harris ⓘ

Ohio Pilot Project Scholarship Program → challengedInCase → Zelman v. Simmons-Harris ⓘ