“’This has been tried in any number of states,” said [Bruce Baker, a school finance professor at Rutgers University who previously taught at The University of Kansas], who has testified in school funding lawsuits across the country and on behalf of the plaintiffs in Kansas’ ongoing school finance lawsuit, Gannon v. State. ‘Call it a different formula. Call it something structurally completely different, even if it’s not. Give it a new name.

“That, he said, can be presented in court as an argument to dismiss a case — based on the idea that the formula specified in the case no longer exists — and force plaintiffs to file a new lawsuit in a lower court, thereby stalling a resolution.” http://cjonline.com/news/2015-01-19/brownback-k-12-plan-prompts-questions-court-maneuver