Meyer v. Nebraska

A Nebraska statute made it a crime for any teacher, in any private, parochial, or public school, to teach any subject in a language other than English, and barred foreign languages from being taught as subjects at all until after the eighth grade. Meyer (defendant), a parochial school teacher, was convicted of violating the statute by teaching German to a ten-year-old student, Raymond Parpart, at the request of the child's parent. The Nebraska Supreme Court affirmed the conviction, and the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari.