Legal Opinion
United States v. State of Texas
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 29, 1998No. 97-40162PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
This ease pits a community’s effort to send 22 children to the school that will best serve their educational needs 1 against the district court’s interpretation of a 27-year-old statewide school desegregation decree. At issue is whether the injunctive decree prohibits a neighborhood subdivision from changing school districts, even though the move would only alter the racial composition of the district from which the subdivision is detached by approximately 2.7 percent.
Because we conclude that the proposed boundary change does not violate the United States…
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