Legal Opinion
Anderson Ex Rel. Dowd v. City of Boston
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 12, 2004No. 03-2021PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
At the outset of its penultimate ruling in this protracted litigation, the district court observed: “This case may possibly be the concluding chapter in thirty years of litigation over the effort to desegregate the Boston Public Schools.” Boston’s Children First v. Boston School Comm., 260 F.Supp.2d 318, 319 (D.Mass.2003). That cautious prediction may be accurate.
Boston’s Children First, a non-profit advocacy group, and parents of several white students sued the City of Boston, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, Boston Public Schools (BPS) Superintendent Thomas Payzant, and…
2Cases cited43 opinions
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- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Carey v. PiphusSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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