McINNIS v. SHAPIRO

No. 68 C 673.

293 F.Supp. 327 (1968)

Linda McINNIS, a minor, etc., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Samuel H. SHAPIRO, Governor of the State of Illinois, Ray Page, Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Illinois, Adlai E. Stevenson, III, Treasurer of the State of Illinois, Michael J. Howlett, Auditor of the State of Illinois, Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

Judgment Affirmed March 24, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cecil C. Butler, Edward G. Thomson, Stanley A. Bass and Zane M. Cohn, Community Legal Counsel, and Curtis Heaston and Leo Holt, Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation, Inc., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

William G. Clark, Atty. Gen., and Thomas E. Brannigan and Peter C. Alexander, Asst. Attys. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

Harry S. Miller, Chicago, Ill., for amici curiae.

Before HASTINGS, Circuit Judge, and DECKER and MAROVITZ, District Judges.


Judgment Affirmed March 24, 1969. See 89 S.Ct. 1197.

DECKER, District Judge.

This is a suit filed by a number of high school and elementary school students attending school within four school districts of Cook County, Illinois, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated challenging the constitutionality of various state statutes dealing with the financing of the public school system.

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