Complex sentence: Use of the Regent's prayer would be initially upheld in both New York State Court and in the New York Court of Appeals, prompting Engels to petition the US Supreme Court in the "Engel v. Vitale" case in 1962.
Split into simpler sentences: Use of the Regent's prayer would be initially upheld in both New York State Court and in the New York Court of Appeals, prompting Engel's to petition the US Supreme Court. While New York's courts backed the use of prayer in school, it was taken before the Supreme Court in the "Engel v. Vitale" case in 1962.