KENNETH ROBINSON, AN INFANT BY HIS PARENT AND GUARDIAN AD LITEM, ERNESTINE ROBINSON AND ERNESTINE ROBINSON, INDIVIDUALLY; PAUL JORDAN, ARTHUR DWYER, FRANK H. BLATZ, AND WILLIAM S. HART. INDIVIDUALLY AND AS MAYORS RESPECTIVELY OF JERSEY CITY, PATERSON, PLAINFIELD AND EAST ORANGE; THE CITIES OF JERSEY CITY, PATERSON, PLAINFIELD AND EAST ORANGE; THE BOARDS OF EDUCATION OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS OF JERSEY CITY, PATERSON, PLAINFIELD AND EAST ORANGE; THE BOARD OF SCHOOL ESTIMATE OF JERSEY CITY; AND RICHARD F. McCARTHY; ALL INDIVIDUALLY AND AS REPRESENTATIVES OF A CLASS OF CLASSES, PLAINTIFFS,
v.
WILLIAM T. CAHILL, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY; JOSEPH M. McCRANE, JR., TREASURER OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY; GEORGE F. KUGLER, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY; RAYMOND H. BATEMAN, PRESIDENT OF THE NEW JERSEY SENATE AND THE NEW JERSEY SENATE; WILLIAM K. DICKEY, SPEAKER OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY AND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY; THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY; CARL L. MARBURGER, COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION AND THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION; THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION; ALL IN THEIR OFFICIAL AND INDIVIDUAL CAPACITIES, DEFENDANTS.
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Decided January 19, 1972.
Decided January 19, 1972.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Mr. Harold J. Ruvoldt, Jr., for plaintiffs (Messrs. Ruvoldt and Ruvoldt, attorneys).
Mr. Stephen G. Weiss (Mr. Weiss was an Assistant Attorney General when this action was commenced and has continued with the case as special counsel.) for defendants (Mr. George F. Kugler, Jr., Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney).
Mr. William J. Bender and Mr. Frank Askin filed a brief amicus curiae on behalf of the Education Committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Newark Chapter, and the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (Mr. David G. Lubell and Mr. Paul Tractenberg of the New York Bar, of counsel).
Mr. Melville D. Miller, Jr., Staff Attorney, State Office of Legal Services, Department of Community Affairs, filed a brief amicus curiae on behalf of the poor of New Jersey (Mr. Carl Bianchi, attorney).
Mr. Robert A. Coogan filed a brief amicus curiae on behalf of Gerald K. Loeb (Messrs. Saling, Moore, O'Mara and Coogan, attorneys).
Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division.
BOTTER, J.S.C.
This action challenges the constitutionality of the system of financing elementary and secondary public schools of New Jersey. The case is similar to cases in other states, such as California, Minnesota and Texas, where conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection clause was asserted recently.1 Also present are questions of state constitutional law, namely, whether the equal protection and education clauses of...
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