Legal Opinion
Robinson Ex Rel. Robinson v. Shelby County Board of Education
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 21, 2009No. 07-6076, 07-6363PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GRIFFIN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents the final chapter in the court-ordered desegregation of the Shelby County, Tennessee, public school system, a process which began forty-five years ago. In 1963, plaintiff public school students1 filed this class action against defendant Shelby County Board of Education (“Board”) alleging unconstitutional racial segregation in the Shelby County schools. In the ensuing period, the district court issued numerous orders requiring the elimination of all vestiges of state-imposed public school segregation in accordance with the mandate of Brown v.…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- San Antonio Independent School District v. RodriguezSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- 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
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Martha Vassalle v. Midland Funding LLCCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2013
- Fisher v. Tucson Unified School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2011
- In Re WilcoxUnited States Bankruptcy Court, D. Colorado · 2010
- Perrea v. Cincinnati Public SchoolsDistrict Court, S.D. Ohio · 2010
- Garner v. InksterDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 2020
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