Legal Opinion
Edward Palmer v. Board of Education of Community Unit School District 201-U, Will County, Illinois
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 3, 1995No. 93-3591, 94-1229PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
The principal question in this case is whether the suits that produced Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686, 98 L.Ed. 873 (1954), should have been dismissed as untimely rather than decided on the merits. Some of the states whose laws were at issue had segregated their schools by race since the nineteenth century, but the plaintiffs did not file suit until 1950. If the claim accrued when the discriminatory assignment system came into being, then the suit was far too late. Our case involves a school system that the plaintiffs believe instituted a…
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