MAINE

Sch. Admin. Dist. No. 1 v. Comm’r, 659 A.2d 854 (Me. 1995).

Plaintiffs, school districts and students, challenged an amendment to the state’s school finance law effecting reductions in funding, on the basis of the equal protection clause of the state constitution.  The trial court applied the rational basis test to the challenge and upheld the funding reductions, and the Maine Supreme Judicial Court affirmed.