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· 3/19/1985

Bennett v. Kentucky Department of Education

Citations

  • 470 U.S. 656
  • 105 S. Ct. 1544
  • 84 L. Ed. 2d 590
  • 1985 U.S. LEXIS 73
  • 53 U.S.L.W. 4332

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • noting that federal grant programs cannot prospectively resolve every possible “ambiguity” concerning particular applications of their statutory requirements
  • finding a violation of the companion no-supplant provision is a substantive, rather than technical, violation
  • rejecting claim of insufficient notice under Pennhurst where statute made clear that there were some conditions placed on receipt of federal funds, and noting that Congress need not \specifically identif[y] and proscrib[e]\ each condition in the legislation
  • \[T]he background of the actual operation of Title I\ informs a proper understanding of \the fundamental nature of the obligations assumed under Title I.\
  • enforcing restriction added five years after adoption of educational program
  • limits on state uses of federal funding

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Judges: O'Connor, Burger, Brennan, Marshall, Rehnquist, Stevens, White, Blackmun, Powell

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