Covington v. Beaumont Independent School District

MEMORANDUM OPINION

SCHELL, District Judge.

This Court must review Bakke and its progeny in assessing plaintiffs’ allegation of unconstitutional race discrimination against defendant school district. Plaintiffs are high school teacher-coaches who allegedly were the victims of illegal discrimination when they were demoted as coaches and replaced by members of another race. The case is currently before the Court on cross motions for summary judgment, the disposition of which is made possible by defendant’s admission that its actions in reassigning plaintiffs were indeed racially motivated.…