Legal Opinion
Hoke County Board of Education v. State
Court of Appeals of North Carolina
Decided July 21, 2009No. COA08-1036PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JACKSON, Judge.
Plaintiffs — students, parents, and school boards from Hoke, Halifax, Robeson, Cumberland, and Vance Counties — -appeal the trial court’s order denying them attorneys’ fees. For the reasons stated below, we affirm.
This case originated in 1994 and became a hallmark of education law in this State.1 The North Carolina Supreme Court, in its first Leandro opinion, concluded that the North Carolina Constitution “guarantee[s] every child of this state an opportunity to receive a sound basic education in our public schools.” Leandro v. State of North Carolina, 346 N.C. 336, 347, 488…
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