sentences:  Frustrated by poor conditions such as insufficient textbooks and dilapidated facilities during the late 1990s, students at Balboa became members of the class-action lawsuit "Williams v. California".Filed in 2000 by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against the State of California, the suit alleged a failure to provide adequate facilities, textbooks, and teachers for the poorest schools in the state.The case was named after Eliezer Williams, a middle school student age 12 at the time, who would go on to graduate from Balboa.