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In ''Epperson v. Arkansas'', 393 U.S. 97 (1968), the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] unanimously held that was unconstitutional under the [[First Amendment]] for an [[Arkansas]] law to make:

:it unlawful for a teacher in any state-supported school or university "to teach the theory or doctrine that mankind ascended or descended from a lower order of animals," or "to adopt or use in any such institution a textbook that teaches" this theory.

Violation of this law was a misdemeanor and subjects the violator to dismissal from his position.

Justice [[Abe Fortas]] wrote the opinion for the [[Warren Court]], and was joined by five other Justices. His reason was that "Arkansas' law cannot be defended as an act of religious neutrality."

Justices [[Hugo Black]], [[John Harlan II]] and [[Potter Stewart]] concurred in the verdict, each writing a separate concurrence. Justice Stewart, for example, would have invalided the statute on vagueness grounds.
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