Legal Opinion
San Francisco NAACP v. San Francisco Unified School District
District Court, N.D. California
Decided November 8, 2005No. C 78-01445 WHA, C 94-02418 WHAPublished
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER DENYING PROPOSED EXTENSION OF CONSENT DECREE
ALSUP, District Judge.
INTRODUCTION
A half-century ago, in the landmark decision Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686, 98 L.Ed. 873 (1954), the Supreme Court called for an end to de jure school segregation. Commenced in 1978, this class action accused the San Francisco Unified School District of de jure segregation. Although this charge was never proven, a settlement in 1983 resulted in a consent decree.
For twenty-two years, the consent decree has regulated all public school assign ments for San Francisco’s children. At first,…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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