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Legal Citation: 461 U.S. 321 (1983)

Petitioner
Oralia Martinez

Respondent
Raymond L. Bynum

Petitioner's Claim
The Texas Education Code 21.031(d) violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because it denied tuition-free public schooling to minors who were living away from a "parent, guardian, or other person having lawful control of him" for the sole purpose of attending "public, free schools" in the state of Texas.

Chief Lawyer for Petitioner
Edward J. Tuddenham

Chief Lawyer for Respondent
Richard L. Arnett

Justices for the Court
Harry A. Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Jr., Warren E. Burger, Sandra Day O'Connor, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., (writing for the Court), William H. Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens, Byron R. White

Justices Dissenting
Thurgood Marshall

Place
Washington...