Legal Opinion
Ayers v. Allain
District Court, N.D. Mississippi
Decided December 10, 1987No. GC75-9-NBPublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
BIGGERS, District Judge.
This class action was commenced on January 28, 1975. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants were maintaining a racially dual system of public higher education in violation of the Fifth, Ninth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d, et seq. On April 21,1975, the United States, by its Attorney General, filed its complaint-in-intervention pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment, §§ 601 and 602 of Title VI and § 902 of Title IX…
2Cases cited39 opinions
- Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Washington v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. FeeneySupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by16 opinions
- United States v. FordiceSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Ayers v. AllainCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1990
- Ayers v. ThompsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2004
- Ayers v. AllainCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1990
- United States v. LouisianaDistrict Court, E.D. Louisiana · 1988
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