Legal Opinion
United States v. Gregory-Portland Independent School District, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant v. State of Texas
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 20, 1981No. 80-1943PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEE, Circuit Judge:
The appellant school district comprises two discrete communities of differing ethnic composition, surrounded and separated by miles of farmland. It is the product of an innocently motivated consolidation of two former districts, each centered on one of the communities. Neither the establishment of the former districts nor their consolidation into the present one was the result of discriminatory state or local action. This appeal presents questions of whether and, if so, in what circumstances intercommunity busing to produce a racial balance in each of a district’s schools…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Stanley v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Bell v. BursonSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Castaneda v. PartidaSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
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3Cited by12 opinions
- United States v. Lulac, Gi Forum and Naacp, Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellees v. State of TexasCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1986
- United States of America, and Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, Lulac and G. I. Forum, Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellees v. State of TexasCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
- Davis v. East Baton Rouge Parish School BoardCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
- Donald Price and Melvin E. Price, Minors v. The Denison Independent School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
- United States v. State of TexasCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2006
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