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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Attorney General vs. School Committee of North Brookfield.
    May 27,1964.
    
      Arthur L. Beaudette, Town Counsel (George K. Gardner with him)> for the respondent.
    
      John E. Sullivan, Assistant Attorney General, for the petitioner.
    
      Gerald A. Berlin, Sanford Kowal, Daniel D. Levenson, Max Volterra, & Albert P. Zabin, for New England Region, American Jewish Congress, & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.
    
      Howard S. Whiteside & Henry P. Monaghan, for Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.
   This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to enjoin the respondent school committee from ordering the continuation of Bible reading and prayer in the public schools of North Brookfield. A single justice entered findings, rulings, and an order. The respondent committee appeals from a judgment enjoining it in accordance with the prayers of the petition. The judgment is affirmed for the reasons given by the single justice in his findings and rulings.