Sentences with phrase «several school finance cases»

Kathy was the one of the lead attorneys in several school finance cases filed in Colorado over the past 20 years.

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Responding to rulings by the New Hampshire Supreme Court in the several Claremont cases against the state's school finance system, the state made major changes in 1999, switching from a local to a statewide property tax.

This decision references several previous California cases related to money, including the Serrano decision, which found that «the then - existing school finance system to be a violation of the equal protection clause of the California Constitution.»

He has also worked on several significant cases involving education financing, including M.A. v. Newark Public Schools, a case now in federal court; Cover is representing Newark special - ed students who say they haven't gotten adequate teaching.

To the extent that Palmer suggests a generally applicable proposition that legislative purpose is irrelevant in constitutional adjudication, our prior cases — as indicated in the text — are to the contrary; and, very shortly after Palmer, all Members of the Court majority in that case joined the Court's opinion in Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U. S. 602 (1971), which dealt with the issue of public financing for private schools and which announced, as the Court had several times before, that the validity of public aid to church - related schools includes close inquiry into the purpose of the challenged statute.