Indiana

AMENDMENT LANGUAGE

State Constitutional Provision

Ind. Const. art. I, § 6: "No money shall be drawn from the treasury, for the benefit of any religious or theological institution."

RELEVANT CASES

State Courts

Embry v. O'Bannon, 798 N.E.2d 157 (Ind. 2003) (Indiana Supreme Court held that a dual-enrollment program under which public schools received additional funds for providing secular educational services to students who were also enrolled in parochial schools did not violate the Indiana constitutional provision prohibiting the use of public funds for the benefit of religious institutions).

Center Township of Marion County v. Coe, 572 N.E.2d 1350 (Ind. 1991).

State ex rel. Johnson v. Boyd, 28 N.E.2d 256 (Ind. 1940).

Federal Courts

K.R. v. Anderson Community School Corp., 81 F.3d 673 (7th Cir. 1996) (judgment vacated and remanded by the U.S. Supreme Court for further consideration in light of statutory amendments, 521 U.S. 1114; on remand, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the district court).

REPEAL EFFORTS

The Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation is one of the more prominent organizations in Indiana interested in repealing the state's Blaine Amendment. See also the Milton & Rose Friedman Foundation.

See the Heritage Foundation website for a list of other state contacts.