Reform Educational Financing Inequities Today (R.E.F.I.T.) et al., Appellants,
v.
Mario M. Cuomo, as Governor of the State of New York, et al., Respondents.
Court of Appeals of the State of New York.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued January 3, 1995.
Decided June 15, 1995.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Kay Collyer & Boose, New York City (Daniel P. Levitt of counsel), and Cooper, Sapir & Cohen, P. C., Hempstead (Robert E. Sapir of counsel), for appellants.
Dennis C. Vacco, Attorney-General, Albany (Daniel Smirlock, Jerry Boone and Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for Edward V. Regan and others, respondents.
DeGraff, Foy, Holt-Harris & Mealey, Albany (Robert E. Biggerstaff and Glen P. Doherty of counsel), for New York State Association of Small City School Districts, Inc., amicus curiae.
Helen Hershkoff, New York City, Donald Shaffer, Arthur Eisenberg and Beth Haroules for the American Civil Liberties Union and others, amici curiae.
Paul A. Crotty, Corporation Counsel of New York City (Elizabeth S. Natrella, Leonard Koerner and Pamela Seider Dolgow of counsel), for City of New York and others, amici curiae.
Juan A. Figueroa, New York City, and Sandra Del Valle for Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., amicus curiae.
Michael A. Rebell Associates, New York City (Michael A. Rebell and Robert L. Hughes of counsel), for Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc., amicus curiae.
Chief Judge KAYE and Judges SIMONS, TITONE, BELLACOSA, SMITH and CIPARICK concur; Judge SMITH concurring only in result.
Court of Appeals of the State of New York.
LEVINE, J.
In this action for declaratory judgment we are asked to determine whether plaintiffs have stated a cause of action in their pleadings and supporting papers in which they seek a declaration that New York's system for financing its public elementary and secondary schools is unconstitutional.
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