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FISCAL EQUITY v. STATE

205 A.D.2d 272 (1994)

Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc., et al., Appellants-Respondents, v. State of New York et al., Respondents-Appellants, and Mario M. Cuomo, as Governor of The State of New York, et al., Respondents City of New York et al., Appellants, v. State of New York et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

November 15, 1994

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. Rebell Associates, New York City (Robert L. Hughes on the brief), for appellants-respondents.

Mark G. Peters of counsel, New York City (Harvey J. Golubock, Andrea Green, Jeffrey I. Slonim and Clement J. Colucci on the brief; G. Oliver Koppell, Attorney-General, attorney), for State of New York, respondents.

A. Orli Spanier, Elizabeth S. Natrella and Denise C. Morgan of counsel, New York City (Evan A. Davis, Lawrence T. Gresser, Marcia L. Narine, Leonard Koerner, Lorna B. Goodman, Pamela Seider Dolgow, David B. Goldin, Florence A. Hutner and Shari M. Goodstein on the brief; Paul A. Crotty, Corporation Counsel of New York City, and Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, attorneys), for City of New York, appellants.

Alan M. Klinger of counsel, New York City (Frederick K. Reich and Adam S. Grace on the brief; Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, and Rhonda Weingarten, attorneys), for The United Federation of Teachers, amicus curiae.

Donald Shaffer and Helen Hershkoff, New York City, for American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, amicus curiae.

Arthur Eisenberg, New York City, for New York Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae, and 16 additional amici curiae.

CARRO, J. P., KUPFERMAN and WILLIAMS, JJ., concur.

WALLACH, J.

The appeals in this consolidated action revisit the issue of equitable distribution of State funds to local school districts. The Court of Appeals directly addressed this question 12 years ago, in litigation involving 31 such districts spread across 21 counties of the State, in Board of Educ., Levittown Union Free School Dist. v Nyquist (57 N.Y.2d 27,

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