Legal Opinion
Geier v. Alexander
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 5, 1986No. 84-6055PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIVELY, Chief Judge.
The United States, an intervenor in an action seeking desegregation of public institutions of higher learning in Tennessee, appeals from a consent decree containing affirmative action provisions. The original plaintiffs, intervening individual plaintiffs, and their successors and the State of Tennessee defendants signed the consent decree and agreed to its entry. Of the parties remaining in the case after more than 15 years of litigation, only the United States objected to the consent decree. In approving the consent decree the district court found that there was a…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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