Plyler v. Doe
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 15, 1982
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Citations:	457 U.S. 202 (1982)
Prior history:	?
Subsequent history:	?
Holding
Undocumented Immigrants and their children are afforded protection under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Court membership
Chief Justice: Warren E. Burger Associate Justices: Byron R. White, William Brennan, Lewis Powell, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, William H. Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinions
Majority by: Brennan Joined by: Stevens, Powell, Marshall, Blackmun Dissent: Burger, Rehnquist, White, O'Connor
Laws applied

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1975 Revisions to education laws in Texas allowed the state to withhold state funds for educating children of illegal aliens. The Court found that this policy was in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, as undocumented immigrants and their children are people "in any ordinary sense of the term", and therefore have protection from discrimination. Since the law disadvantaged the children of the undocumented by denying them funds for an effective education, the Court struck down the law.

This case was decided together with Texas v. Certain Named and Unnamed Alien Child.

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