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The ruling allows the ACLU to seek information from the state about its supervision of local schools, including such details as the number of students who lack textbooks, a question the state says it can't answer. After both sides gather evidence, [Peter Busch] will decide whether the case can go to trial. The suit says the schools suffer, in varying degrees, from conditions that interfere with learning: leaky roofs, dirty bathrooms with clogged toilets, falling tiles, textbooks too scarce to be handed out or taken home, students sitting on counters or standing because of a lack of seats and students sweltering in 90-degree heat. At many schools, more than half the teachers have little training and lack regular credentials, the suit says.

It's the eve of your dad's birthday. You can't think of a suitable present. He has lived 89 years -- long enough to have been given everything. What to do? Well, you could do like [PETER BUSCH].

\"The point is they're illegally expending taxpayer funds because they're violating (federal) law,\" said Sharma Hammond, a lawyer with the institute based in Washington, DC. \"It's hard for me to see that there is a reasonable possibility for a significant impact on the environment,\" [Peter Busch] said. \"There certainly is no direct impact.\" Julie Harumi Mass, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, which had joined in the city's defense, said the ruling helps free San Francisco to go forward with what she described as a \"modest public safety measure.\" She said it also may encourage groups in other cities, such as Oakland and Richmond, to go forward with their own plans for municipal ID cards.