Legal Opinion
Rodriguez v. San Antonio Independent School District
District Court, W.D. Texas
Decided January 26, 1972No. Civ. A. 68-175-SAPublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Per curiam
Pursuant to Rule 23, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, plaintiffs bring this action on behalf of Mexican American school children and their parents who live in the Edgewood Independent School District, and on behalf of all other children throughout Texas who live in school districts with low property valuations. Jurisdiction of this matter is proper under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 1343. This Court finds merit in plaintiffs’ claim that the current method of state financing for public elementary and secondary education deprives their class of equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Reynolds v. SimsSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Griffin v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- McGowan v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Douglas v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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3Cited by47 opinions
- San Antonio Independent School District v. RodriguezSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Robinson v. CahillSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1973
- Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District v. Edgewood Independent School DistrictTexas Supreme Court · 1992
- New York State Ass'n for Retarded Children, Inc. v. RockefellerDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1973
- Graves v. BarnesDistrict Court, W.D. Texas · 1972
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