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SERRANO v. PRIEST

Docket No. L.A. 29820.

5 Cal.3d 584 (1971)

487 P.2d 1241

96 Cal. Rptr. 601

JOHN SERRANO, JR., et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. IVY BAKER PRIEST, as State Treasurer, etc., et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

August 30, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

David A. Binder, Michael H. Shapiro, William T. Rintala, Harold W. Horowitz and Sidney M. Wolinsky for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Kenneth Hecht, Peter B. Sandmann, Kathrine Sears, Anne Unverzagt, Louis Garcia, Mario Obledo, Alan Exelrod, Michael Mendelson, Joe Ortega, Stephen D. Sugarman, John E. Coons, David L. Kirp, Mark G. Yudof, Paul R. Dimond, Kenneth F. Phillips, Marc I. Hayutin, A.L. Wirin, Fred Okrand, Laurence R. Sperber, Paul N. Halvonik, Charles C. Marson, Ephraim Margolin, Irving G. Breyer, Milton Marks, George R. Moscone, Willie Brown, Jr., John Burton, John Francis Foran and Leo T. McCarthy as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Evelle J. Younger and Thomas C. Lynch, Attorneys General, Sanford N. Gruskin and Ernest P. Goodman, Assistant Attorneys General, John D. Maharg, County Counsel, James W. Briggs, Assistant County Counsel, Elaine M. Grillo, Donovan M. Main and DeWitt W. Clinton, Deputy County Counsel, for Defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

SULLIVAN, J.

We are called upon to determine whether the California public school financing system, with its substantial dependence on local property taxes and resultant wide disparities in school revenue, violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. We have determined that this funding scheme invidiously discriminates against the poor because it makes the quality of a child's education a function of the...

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