Legal Opinion
Board of Education of Independent School District 20 v. Oklahoma
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided April 14, 1969No. 89-68PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.
The claim of the plaintiffs-appellants is that Oklahoma treats them unequally in the distribution of taxes collected for school purposes from utilities operating in more than one county. Jurisdiction is asserted under 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3) in that plaintiffs are deprived of the equal protection guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. A three-judge district court was requested and denied. The trial court dismissed the action for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction and this appeal followed.
The action was brought by the Board of Education of a Muskogee, Oklahoma, school…
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