Legal Opinion
Boston's Children First v. City of Boston
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 18, 2005No. 03-2470PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs, a non-profit organization 1 and ten white children living in Boston, challenged the City’s former and current school assignment systems in a case that the district court noted “may possibly be the concluding chapter in thirty years of litigation over the effort to desegregate the Boston public schools.” Boston’s Children First v. Boston Sch. Comm., 260 F.Supp.2d 318, 319 (D.Mass.2003). In rulings that we recently affirmed, the district court rejected the majority of the plaintiffs’ claims but awarded nominal damages to two children who were denied seats at…
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