Judge Allows California School Textbook Lawsuit to Proceed

March 26, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Hinduism Today/California Parents for the Equalization of Educational Materials

http://www.hinduismtoday.com/hpi/2008/3/27.shtml#1

California Parents for the Equalization of Educational Materials (CAPEEM) scored a major victory on Tuesday when Judge Frank C. Damrell, Jr. of the United States District Court of the Eastern District of California rejected the defendants' motion to dismiss CAPEEM's lawsuit to correct inaccuracies in sixth grade history textbooks. CAPEEM's complaint contends that the process to adopt the textbooks discriminated against Hindus and that the textbooks indulge in indoctrination of Abrahamic religions while using disparaging language against Hinduism.