Carlsbad Union Sch. Dist. of San Diego County v. Rafferty

I. OPINION OF SINGLE-JUDGE COURT

KUNZEL, Chief Judge.

This is probably the fifth challenge 1 in the United States District Courts to state laws which provide for the deduction of certain percentages of federal impact funds 2 from the amount of state aid which would otherwise have been allocated by the state to impacted school districts. All other challenges have been sustained, just as this must be.

Here plaintiffs fall into two classes: (1) the impacted school districts which qualify for federal aid pursuant to Pub. L. No. 81-874, 64 Stat. 1100; and (2) resident taxpayers in the affected…