The Nation - News from June 24, 1987

Attorneys for the Alabama Board of Education and a dozen Mobile County parents asked a federal appeals panel to throw out a controversial lower-court decision banning 44 Alabama public school textbooks, arguing that the fundamentalist parents who challenged the books wanted to tailor curricula to their religious beliefs. The lawyers cited as support the Supreme Court’s decision last week overturning the Louisiana law that required schools to teach creationism with evolution.