In Plyler v. Doe, a class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of certain school-age children of Mexican origin residing in Texas who could not establish that they had been legally admitted into the United States. The Supreme Court struck down a state statute denying funding for education to immigrant children living illegally in the United States and a municipal school district’s attempt to charge an annual $1,000 tuition fee for each student to compensate for lost state funding. A district court found that the increase in enrollment in Texas public schools was primarily attributable to the admission of children who were legal residents. The court concluded that people living in the country illegally were entitled to the protection of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, and that the Texas legislation violated it. A court of appeals affirmed, and the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. This case was decided together with Texas v. Certain Named and Unnamed Alien Child.