United States Eighth Circuit

In a case involving school districts' consolidations under Arkansas' Act 60, district court's grant of defendants' motion to dismiss is affirmed where Act 60 is a facially neutral law that does not infringe on a fundamental right and survives rational basis review because the State of Arkansas has a legitimate governmental interest in consolidating school districts to achieve economies of scale and other efficiencies and the classification drawn between school districts based on their average daily membership is rationally related to advancing that interest.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/25/2009
• Published 08/25/2009

Judges

• GRUENDER, Circuit Judge., Before WOLLMAN, MELLOY and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jimmie Lee Wilson, argued, West Helena, AR, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Scott P. Richardson, AAG, argued, Matthew B. McCoy, AAG, on the brief, Little Rock, AR, for appellee.