Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/LeVake v. Independent School District 656

LeVake v. Independent School District 656

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This case appears to be non-notable. It was in a Minnesota trial court, and was appealed, but both the state and US supreme courts declined to review it. As a state district court case, it sets no precedent; and even the appeal (which is not covered in the article) would likely be precedential only for the slice of Minnesota over which the court of appeals had jurisdiction. (But I'll caveat on this; some states have different rules on precedent, and it's possible Minnesota extends precedent of an intermediate court over the entire state; California does this, for example.)

I PRODded it, but the prod was removed by the creating editor. The bases for removal was that the case was appealed all the way to Minnesota Supreme Court (where it lost); and that It is covered in several books per searches on books.google.com including Jones's 'Teaching about Scientific Origins: Taking Account of Creationism' and Moore's 'Evolution in the courtroom'.

In fact, it did not get appealed to the Minnesota Supreme Court; that court declined to hear the case. See [1]. It was "appealed" to that court only in the sense that the litigant wanted it to go before the court, but the court said, "we don't even want to hear it" and did not review the merits.

On the two book cites, as to the first, it appears to be a very limited discussion on one page, plus line-item entries in a couple lists. As to the second, it's a three-paragraph summary in a 381-page book. I don't think either one, or the combination of both, pushes this over into notability. TJRC (talk) 23:51, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. TJRC (talk) 00:06, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]