Kathy Sue Johnson, Etc., and Darcel Milton, Etc. v. Board of Education of the City of Chicago

BAUER, Circuit Judge.

The principal issue presented by this appeal is whether the Constitution permits local school authorities to impose racial quotas on enrollments in connection with a desegregation plan voluntarily enacted to prevent de facto segregation in the public schools. Plaintiffs-appellants appeal from •the order of the district court upholding the challenged desegregation plan as constitutional and enjoining the defendants-appel-lees to maintain and to continue the plan, as modified to provide for the voluntary busing of students excluded from admission to their neighborhood high…