Pierce v. Society Of Sisters

268 U.S. 510 (1925)

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Nature of the Case

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Facts

This was a dispute over a law that compelled children between the ages of 8 and 16 to attend public school. Opposed to that law were the Society of Sisters, who ran an orphanage to care for educate those youths and Hill Military Academy who operated an elementary, college preparatory and military training school for boys aged 5-21. Oregon passed the Act effective 1926, and its enforcement would shut down all private means of schooling for children between 8-16.