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NEELEY v. WEST ORANGE-COVE CONSOLIDATED INDEP. SCH. DIST.

No. 03-06-00460-CV.

228 S.W.3d 864 (2007)

Shirley NEELEY, Texas Commissioner of Education; the Texas Education Agency; Carol Keeton Strayhorn, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts; and the Texas State Board of Education, Appellants v. WEST ORANGE-COVE CONSOLIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT; Coppell Independent School District; La Porte Independent School District; Port Neches-Groves Independent School District; Dallas Independent School District, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Austin.

June 21, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Danica L. Milios, Asst. Solicitor Gen., Austin, for Appellants.

Diego M. Bernal, David G. Hinojosa, Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., San Antonio, for Intervenor.

George Bramblett Jr., Haynes & Boone, LLP, Dallas, Randall B. Wood and Doug W. Ray, Ray, Wood & Bonilla, Austin, J. David Thompson III, Bracewell & Guliani, LLP, Houston, for Appellees.

Before Chief Justice LAW, Justices PURYEAR and HENSON.

OPINION

DIANE HENSON, Justice.

The State appellants challenge the award of attorneys' fees to the school district appellees (the Districts) in a suit for declaratory and injunctive relief under the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act (UDJA) and article VII, § 1 and article VIII, § 1-e of the Texas Constitution.

Four Texas school districts, who were later joined by 43 additional districts (collectively, the West Orange-Cove Districts...

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