Legal Opinion
Wessmann v. Gittens
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 19, 1998No. 98-1657PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The City of Boston operates three renowned “examination schools,” the most prestigious of which is Boston Latin School (BLS). The entrance points for admission to BLS occur principally at the seventh- and ninth-grade levels. In this litigation, plaintiff-appellant Henry Robert Wessmann, on *792behalf of his minor child, Sarah P. Wess-mann, challenges the constitutionality of BLS’s admissions policy (the Policy). The district court rebuffed Wessmann’s challenge. See Wessmann v. Boston Sch. Comm., 996 F.Supp. 120 (D.Mass.1998). On appeal, we must decide whether the Policy,…
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