WEST ORANGE-COVE SCHOOL DIST. v. ALANIS

No. 03-01-00491-CV.

78 S.W.3d 529 (2002)

WEST ORANGE-COVE CONSOLIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT; Coppell Independent School District; La Porte Independent School District; and Port Neches-Groves Independent School District, Appellants, v. Felipe ALANIS, Texas Commissioner of Education; The Texas Education Agency; Carol Keeton Rylander, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts; and The Texas State Board of Education; Alvarado I.S.D.; Anthony I.S.D., Aubrey I.S.D.; Bangs I.S.D.; et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Austin.

April 11, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Walter Bramblett, Jr., Nina Cortell, Carrie L. Huff, Haynes & Boone, LLP, Dallas, W. Wade Porter, Austin, Mark R. Trachtenberg, Houston, for Appellants.

Jeffrey S. Boyd, Deputy Attorney General for Litigation, Toni Hunter, Chief, General Litigation Division, Austin, Albert H. Kauffman, Nina Perales, Leticia M. Saucedo, Joseph P. Berra, San Antonio, Randall B. Wood, Doug W. Ray, Ray, Wood, Fine & Bonilla, L.L.P., Austin, for Appellees.

Before Chief Justice ABOUSSIE, Justices B.A. SMITH and PURYEAR.


BEA ANN SMITH, Justice.

Four school districts led by West Orange-Cove Consolidated Independent School District (West Orange-Cove) appeal the dismissal of their action seeking a declaratory judgment that the present school finance system is unconstitutional.1 The interested parties include Felipe Alanis,2 Commissioner of Education, the Texas Education Agency, the Comptroller...

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