Legal Opinion · Dissent
Geier v. Richardson
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 12, 1989No. 88-5155Published
1DissentMerritt, Circuit Judge
The Department of Justice as intervening plaintiff, along with other plaintiffs some of whom were represented by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, prevailed at the liability stage of this Tennessee higher education desegregation case. The defendants lost at this stage of the case. At the remedial stage and after long negotiation, the parties finally entered into a settlement agreement. The Department objected to one provision.
Neither this court nor the court below found that the objections of the Department to this provision were frivolous. The Department objected to one provision of the…
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