The Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling that struck down Texas school finance.

Evidence

Rodriguez’s lawyers argued that these disparities in funding led to unequal and inadequate education for students in property-poor districts and therefore violated the federal Constitution. A federal district court agreed and struck down Texas’s school finance system ‘as inconsistent with the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. But in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973), the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the district court’s decision by a 5-4 vote. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3271

Categorization

• XREF: Core case for the course’s treatment of equal protection and wealth discrimination under the Fourteenth Amendment.