Legal Opinion
Goss v. Board of Ed. of Knoxville
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 3, 1963No. 217PublishedCited by 184 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
We granted certiorari (371 U. S. 811) limited to the question whether petitioners, Negro school children seeking desegregation of the public school systems of Knoxville, Tennessee (the Goss case), and Davidson County, Tennessee, an area adjacent to Nashville (the Maxwell-case), are deprived of rights under the Fourteenth Amendment. The question centers around substantially similar transfer provisions incorporated in formal desegregation plans adopted by the respective local school boards pursuant to court orders. The claim is that the transfer programs are invalid because they are based…
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