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This was a class action brought on behalf of children residing in a school district with a comparatively low property tax base - 98% of whom were Mexican-American. The plaintiffs challenged the reliance of the State of Texas on local property taxes to finance schools, which meant that students in poorer districts received only two-thirds of the amount students received in the wealthier districts.

En este caso, la South Fork Band y otras comunidades de Western Shoshone habían apelado una decisión de un tribunal inferior que les negaba una medida cautelar[1] contra la construcción de la mina de oro.

In this case, the South Fork Band and other Western Shoshone tribes were appealing a lower court decision denying an injunction[1] against the construction of the gold mine. In their appeal to the Court, the South Fork Band argued that an injunction should be granted against Barrick Cortez because the U.S.

Durante la construcción de un oleoducto en Myanmar por parte de Unocal, empresa estadounidense productora de petróleo y gas, ésta contrató al ejército de dicho país para que lleve a cabo tareas de seguridad en la obra. Los pobladores locales de la zona en la que se estaba construyendo el oleoducto denunciaron que el ejército los sometió a desalojos forzosos, los obligó a trabajar en el proyecto, y cometió violaciones, asesinatos y torturas.

During Unocal's construction of an oil pipeline in Myanmar, it hired Myanmar's military for security while the pipeline was built. The villagers in the area where the pipeline was being constructed alleged the military forcefully evicted them, forced them to work on the project and raped, murdered and tortured them.

La Constitución de Texas establece que “la difusión general del conocimiento” es “esencial para la preservación de las libertades y los derechos del pueblo”. Asimismo, la Legislatura y el Estado tienen la obligación de “establecer y realizar las previsiones adecuadas para financiar y mantener un sistema eficiente de escuelas gratuitas” (Artículo VII, pár. 1).

Este caso fue una demanda colectiva iniciada en nombre de hombres sin techo de la zona de Bowery, en Manhattan, con la que se buscaba una medida cautelar temporaria que ordenara a la Ciudad de Nueva York proveer un refugio para dichos hombres. Los demandantes se basaron en el artículo XVII, párrafo 1, de la Constitución del Estado, el cual requiere que el Estado provea “la ayuda, asistencia y apoyo de los necesitados en la manera y por el medio que la legislatura determine periódicamente”.

The Texas Constitution declares that “a general diffusion of knowledge” is “essential to the preservation of the liberties and rights of the people”. Further, the Legislature and State have a duty “to establish and make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of free schools” (Article VII § 1). Here, the Petitioners sought a review of an appeal court's order that reversed a trial court judgment which found that Texas' school financing system violated the Texas Constitution. This system relied on local property taxes to fund schools.

In 1993, the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, as well as several students and their parents, filed a complaint asserting that New York State's educational financing scheme, in violation of the state Constitution, fails to provide public school students in New York City, an opportunity to obtain a sound basic education. Gross underfunding of schools had allegedly led to a scarcity of basic resources, as well as low test scores and graduation rates.

Callahan was a class-action suit on behalf of homeless men in the Bowery area of Manhattan seeking a temporary mandatory injunction requiring the City of New York to provide shelter to homeless men.