9th Circuit Hears Oral Arguments In Ban On School Use of Primary Source Religious Books

On Tuesday, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in Nampa Classical Academy v. Goesling. (Audio recording of full arguments.) In the case, the trial court rejected a challenge by a state-funded charter school to a state policy that barred its use of the Bible, the Koran and other sectarian books as primary source teaching material. The district court held that the charter school is itself a political subdivision and has no rights to assert against the state that is controlling the content of governmental speech. (See prior posting.) Blog from the Capital reports on the oral arguments.