Legal Opinion
Hoots v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
Decided May 15, 1973No. Civ. A. 71-538PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WEBER, District Judge.
INTRODUCTION
This is a suit under the federal Civil Rights Act in which plaintiffs, as representatives of a class, allege that residents of the Borough of Braddock, North Braddock and Rankin, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, have been deprived of rights, privileges and immunities guaranteed them by the laws and Constitution of the United States by being forced to attend and send their children to a racially segregated school district created by the actions of the various defendants in preparing, approving and adopting plans of reorganization and consolidation of…
2Cases cited31 opinions
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Loving v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Green v. County School Board of New Kent CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- McLaughlin v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by28 opinions
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- Hart v. Community Sch. Bd. of Brooklyn, NY Sch. D. 21District Court, E.D. New York · 1974
- Evans v. BuchananDistrict Court, D. Delaware · 1975
- Debbie and Doreen Soria v. Oxnard School District Board of TrusteesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1973
- United States v. Yonkers Board of EducationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1987
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