Suit on Frog Dissection Rejected

A federal judge in Los Angeles today dismissed a lawsuit brought by a high school girl who refused on moral grounds to dissect a frog after lawyers for her school agreed to let her do the class work using photos of a frog that had died of natural causes.

Jenifer Graham, 16, sued the Victor Valley High School District in Victorville in June, 1987, seeking alternative work to the dissection, arguing that it would violate her religious beliefs. “I don’t think she has any choice in this,” U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real said. “She can’t take this to absurdity. The Constitution is not meant to be absurd.”