September 26, 2008
Calif. Appeals Court Revives Challenge to Tuition Law
A California appeals court has revived a lawsuit challenging a state law that allows some illegal immigrants and other nonresidents to pay in-state tuition, a decision that some lawyers involved in the case said could have ripple effects in nine other states with similar laws.
A trial-court judge threw out the lawsuit two years ago, dismissing the plaintiffs' claims that the state law violated the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as a 1996
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