CONNECTICUT COALITION FOR JUSTICE IN EDUCATION FUNDING, INC., et al.
v.
Governor M. Jodi RELL et al.
Supreme Court of Connecticut.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued April 22, 2008.
Decided March 30, 2010.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Neil Weare and David Noah, certified legal interns, with whom were Robert A. Solomon and Robin Golden, for the appellants (plaintiffs).
Gregory T. D'Auria, associate attorney general, with whom were Clare E. Kindall and Robert J. Deichert, assistant attorneys general, and, on the brief, Richard Blumenthal, attorney general, for the appellees (defendants).
Erika L. Amarante, New Haven and Michael A. Rebell, New York, NY, filed a brief for the Campaign for Educational Equity et al. as amici curiae.
Steven D. Ecker, Hartford, filed a brief for the Workforce Alliance et al. as amici curiae.
Robert M. DeCrescenzo, Hartford, filed a brief for the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities et al. as amici curiae.
Linda L. Morkan, Ndidi N. Moses and Nicole A. Bernabo, Hartford, filed a brief for One Connecticut as amicus curiae.
John C. Brittain, Washington, DC, Jennifer Mullen St. Hilaire, Hartford and Emily A. Gianquinto filed a brief for the Connecticut State Conference NAACP et al. as amici curiae.
David N. Rosen filed a brief for Christopher Collier and Simon J. Bernstein as amici curiae.
NORCOTT, KATZ, PALMER, VERTEFEUILLE, ZARELLA, SCHALLER and McLACHLAN, Js.
Supreme Court of Connecticut.
NORCOTT, J.
It is by now well established that, under the constitution of Connecticut, the state must "`provide a substantially equal educational opportunity to its youth in its free public elementary and secondary schools'"; Horton v. Meskill,172 Conn. 615, 649, 376 A.2d 359 (1977) (Horton I); and that this court has a role in ensuring that our state's public school students receive that fundamental guarantee. See...
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