Case Name: Attorney General vs. School Committee of North Brookfield
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1964-05-27
Citations: 347 Mass. 775
Docket Number: 
Parties: Attorney General vs. School Committee of North Brookfield.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 347
Pages: 775–775

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.