rights to do on his own time; but this sanction, Sheriff Tesch, his incarceration to jail, he will not be provided writing or recording materials except as may be needed for personal correspondence.

The tragedy of this whole thing is the victims

are your children.

Anything more, Mr. Moravec?

MR. MORAVEC: No, Your Honor.
THE COURT: Mr. Craze or Mr. Gibbs?

I!R. GIBBS: One moment, Your Honor. Your Honor, may we ask one request? Could we have 10 or 15 minutes with our client in the juyr room' before the steriff takes him over to the --

APPENDIX - K

JUDGE CASE 'S ORDER, APRIL 29, 1979

FILEO DISTRICT COURT CASS COUNTY, NEGR.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF CASS COUNTY, NEBRASK SEP 11 PM 1: 25

Now on the 16th day of July, 1979, the above entitled came

before the Court for hearing on the merits. For the purposes of the hearing the plaintiff State was present by James F. Begley.

Deputy County Attorney and Ronald D. Moravec, County Attorney

of Cass County, Nebraska. The defendants were present by their counsel, Charles Craze of Cleveland, Ohio, and Gary Dunlap of Milford, Nebraska.

Evidence was adduced over a period of three days, the

parties resting on the 18th of July. Counsel agreed to submit

arguments in the form of briefs, the same being permitted by

the Court with the plaintiff being limited to three weeks from the 18th and the defendants to have a period of ten days thereafter in which to file a reply brief.

The Court having received and read the briefs and being

well and fully advised in the premises finds :

1.

That the defendant Faith Baptist Church, through its

officers and directors, is conducting a private school in Louisville, Cass County, Nebraska;

.

2.

That said school is being operated in violation of the

rules and regulations of the Department of Education and the

statutes of the State of Nebraska in that neither the superinten

dent nor the principal thereof hold a Nebraska administrative

and supervisory certificate;

3.

That the defendants Tressie Sileven, Martha Gilbert and

Helen Aldrich are performing the functions of teachers in said

file a fall approval report in each of the years that the school

has been operated in violation of the rules and regulations of

the Department of Education;

6.

That none of the individual defendants who are teaching

in the school have filed a complete transcript of their college

credits as required by the rules and regulations of the Depart

ment of Education;

That the defendant Faith Baptist Church and its officers,

to-wit:

Reverend Everett Sileven, Reverend Edgar Gilbert,

Kenneth Heard and Dave Carlson have failed to seek initial approval

status as an approved school system as required by the rules

and regulations of the Department of Education;

8.

That each of the individual defendants in concert or

individually have generally failed to comply with the school

laws of the State of Nebraska in the operation of a private

school and that an injunction should be granted in accordance

with the prayer of the petition.

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND CONSIDERED by the

Court that the Faith Baptist Church together with the president

thereof, Reverend Everett Sileven, and Reverend Edgar Gilbert,

che defendants Tressie Sileven, Martha Gilbert, Helen Aldrich,

Kenneth Heard and Dave Carlson be and each of them are hereby

enjoined from further operation of a private school or the

using of church property for the operation of a private school

until such time as they have complied with the Nebraska statutes and the rules and regulations of the Department of Education

MODEL LEGISLATION FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ACT

1. No federal, state, or local government shall define, classify, tax,

license, approve, certify, restrain or restrict or otherwise infringe

the practice of any sincerely held religious belief of any citizen

of the United States,

2. There are no compelling state interests that supercedes the right

of individual citizens to practice their religious beliefs.

3. Religious beliefs shall be defined by the individual citizen and no

citizen's religious beliefs must conform to those of another, to be

protected from the government and its agencies,

4. This Act in no way diminishes the ability of government, at all levels,