IN RE ALIEN CHILDREN ED. LITIGATION

MDL No. 398.

501 F.Supp. 544 (1980)

In re ALIEN CHILDREN EDUCATION LITIGATION.

United States District Court, S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

July 21, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter A. Schey, Los Angeles, Cal., Isaias Torres, Antonio Guajardo, Houston, Tex., Jane Swanson, Beaumont, Tex., Virginia Schramm, Tyler, Tex., Alfredo Campos, Larry Mealer, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Drew S. Days, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert J. Reinstein, Joseph D. Rich, Linda E. Carter, F. Lamont Liggett, Attys., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., J. A. "Tony" Canales, U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for plaintiff-intervenor.

Mark White, Atty. Gen. of Texas, John W. Fainter, Jr., First Asst. Atty. Gen., Ted L. Hartley, Executive Asst. Atty. Gen., Paul R. Gavia, Chief, State and County Affairs, Susan J. Dasher, Gregory Wilson, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, Tex., for defendants; Bowen L. Florsheim, Dallas, Tex., of counsel.

Hurst Hannum, Amy Young-Anawaty, Washington, D. C., for amicus curiae.


I. INTRODUCTION

SEALS, District Judge.

This case concerns what has evolved into the most important institution in this country: the public school. Our public schools no longer exist merely to supply the tools which provide access to the economic bounty and participatory process of this nation. With the decline of the influence possessed by other institutions in our society such as the family and church, the schools are being called on to perform additional...

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