School districts in other states have brought similar lawsuits summoning constitutional language to demand increased funding and awaited the Kansas ruling as a legal guidepost.
Since 2007, Detroit has paid out almost $27m in lawsuits and settlements costs related to police misconduct.
What are they waiting for?" Despite such apparent evidence, the fact that lawsuits were brought against the police for assault, unlawful arrest and malicious prosecution, and that South Yorkshire police – the force at the centre of the Hillsborough disaster cover-up – later agreed to pay nearly £500,000 in compensation to 39 miners, campaigners are concerned over the lack of progress.
Miller, an Army veteran whose chest was festooned with medals, looked education undersecretary Ted Mitchell in the eye and asked, "Do you have any honor and dignity?" Despite mounting evidence of malfeasance at the Corinthian chain and various criminal probes and lawsuits, over half a million students remain on the hook.
Samsung and Apple agreed to drop lawsuits outside of the US in August after cases spanned multiple countries including Germany, Britain, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, South Korea, Japan and Australia.
Yet lawsuits require plaintiffs to have suffered some kind of cognizable harm before they can have their day in court.
Xiaomi, Samsung and other smartphone manufacturers have been accused of copying Apple's designs, with long-running patent lawsuits between Apple and Samsung as well as others taking arguments to court.
Some of the archive is now trapped in an Arkansas warehouse after the business tasked with digitising it was placed into receivership and is facing 10 lawsuits totalling more than $90m.
In the US "there have been no successful lawsuits, no product recalls, no substantiated ill effects, and no other evidence of risk from a GM crop product intended for human consumption".
The arrests spurred a number of lawsuits, including a case involving more than a dozen demonstrators who said police ordered them to leave but prevented them from doing so and arrested them in lower Manhattan early on New Year's Day 2012.
Last week a judge ruled that GM would not have to face dozens of lawsuits accusing the car company of concealing the ignition switch defect ahead of its bankruptcy.
