Liddell v. Board of Education

HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

The St. Louis school desegregation case is before this Court for the ninth time.1 Our past opinions have purposely left a great deal of discretion to the parties to this action. Although it would be preferable to continue that course, we must be more precise if the decisions of this Court to integrate the St. Louis school system are to be fully and fairly implemented.

Notwithstanding our lack of precision, significant progress towards integration has been made. In the school year 1985-86, nearly 7,000 black students from the City of St. Louis attended schools in the…