A federal judge has agreed to reconsider his ruling in a lawsuit between Idaho’s public schools and the state’s highest court. But U.S. District Judge Lynn Winmill warned both sides that no matter what he decides the case will likely go on to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The school districts are suing the Idaho Supreme Court justices, contending that the high court failed to provide a remedy for the schools after finding that the state’s school funding system was unconstitutional. The districts say that was a violation of their due process rights. But the justices say the U.S. District Court doesn’t have the jurisdictional authority to tell them how to handle the case, and that their disposition of the matter should stand. Judge Winmill did not say when he would make his ruling.
(AP)