Legal Opinion
Certain Named and Unnamed Non-Citizen Children and Their Parents v. Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided September 4, 1980No. A-179PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Powell, Circuit Justice.
This is an application to vacate an order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, staying, pending appeal, an injunction entered by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The District Court held that § 21.031 of the Texas Education Code (Supp. 1980), which prohibits the use of state funds to educate alien children who are not “legally admitted” to the United States, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The court enjoined state education officials from denying free public…
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3Cited by21 opinions
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