· 12/14/1995
Randolph County Board of Education v. Adams
Citations
- 467 S.E.2d 150
- 196 W. Va. 9
- 1995 W. Va. LEXIS 265
How courts have described this case
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- holding that free textbooks are today required by the West Virginia Constitution’s guarantee of a thorough and efficient education, even though they were not required when the Constitution was adopted
- holding that free textbooks are today required by the West Virginia Constitution's guarantee of a thorough and efficient education, even though they were not required when the Constitution was adopted
- explaining that \[t]he starting point in every case involving construction of our Constitution is the language of the constitutional provision at issue\ (citation omitted)
- explaining that “[t]he starting point in every ease involving construction of our Constitution is the language of the constitutional provision at issue” (citation omitted)
- stating “[t]he starting point in every case involving construction of our Constitution is the language of the constitutional provision at issue”
- discussing concept of judicial restraint as requiring \defer[ence] to rationally based legislative enactments\
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Judges: Cleckley, Miller, Albright
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