Legal Opinion
Willie Eugene Pitts v. Robert Freeman
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 22, 1985No. 84-8286PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PITTMAN, District Judge:
r ,, , , In 1969, the district court issued a desegregation order that required the defendants to dismantle the previously dual school sys-tern and to institute a unitary system. In 1983, the black plaintiff class filed a motion in that proceeding to enjoin the defendants from expanding and constructing certain school facilities to relieve overcrowding at the Redan High School. In ruling on that motion, the district court, without giving notice and holding a hearing on the issue, stated that the DeKalb County School Sys-tern was unitary It proceeded to find that the…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Larry Bonner v. City of Prichard, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1981
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Green v. County School Board of New Kent CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Columbus Board of Education v. PenickSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Wright v. Council of EmporiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by39 opinions
- Georgia State Conference of Branches of Naacp, Mary Alice Covin, Mary Laurant, Sylvia Dennis, and Naomi Tucker v. State of GeorgiaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
- DeKalb County School District v. SchrenkoCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1997
- Wilfred Keyes, and Congress of Hispanic Educators, Plaintiffs/intervenors-Appellees v. School District No. 1, Denver, ColoradoCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1990
- United States of America, Sheanda Bryant, Intervenors-Appellants, Cross-Appellees v. Lawrence County School District, Cross-AppellantsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1986
- Youngblood v. DalzellCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1991
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