Neeley v. West Orange-Cove Consolidated Independent School District

OPINION

DIANE HENSON, Justice.

The State appellants challenge the award of attorneys’ fees to the school district appellees (the Districts) in a suit for declaratory and injunctive relief under the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act (UDJA) and article VII, § 1 and article VIII, § 1-e of the Texas Constitution.

Four Texas school districts, who were later joined by 43 additional districts (collectively, the West Orange-Cove Districts), initially brought suit against the State, claiming that the State’s school-finance *866system constituted a state property tax prohibited by article VIII, § 1-e and that…