Legal Opinion
Comfort v. Lynn School Committee
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided June 29, 2001No. 99-11811-NGPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
GERTNER, District Judge.
The plaintiffs, parents of students residing in Lynn, Massachusetts, challenge the validity of the Lynn “Voluntary Plan for School Improvement and the Elimination of Racial Isolation” [hereinafter “the Lynn Plan”] and the Massachusetts Racial Imbalance Act. They contend that the consideration of race, both in limiting a student’s ability to transfer out of a neighborhood, or “district,” school under the Lynn Plan and in regulating the allocation of state education funding under the Racial Imbalance Act, 1 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the…
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3Cited by7 opinions
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