Legal Opinion
Milliken v. Bradley
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 27, 1977No. 76-447PublishedCited by 1,025 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Burger
We granted certiorari in this case to consider two questions concerning the remedial powers of federal district courts in school desegregation cases, namely, whether a District Court can, as part of a desegregation decree, order compensatory or remedial educational programs for schoolchildren who have been subjected to past acts of de jure segregation, and whether, consistent with the Eleventh Amendment, a federal court can require state officials found responsible for constitutional violations to bear part of the costs of those programs.
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2Cases cited44 opinions
- Ex Parte YoungSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Edelman v. JordanSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- San Antonio Independent School District v. RodriguezSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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- Quern v. JordanSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Hutto v. FinneySupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Green v. MansourSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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