Legal Opinion
Flax v. Potts
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided March 1, 1962No. Civ. A. 4205PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREWSTER, District Judge.
This suit was brought individually and as a class action to terminate a policy of racial segregation in the public schools within the Fort Worth Independent School District.
The plaintiffs were Sergeant Weirleis Flax, as next friend for his six year old daughter, Arlene, and Herbert Teal, as next friend for the six of his minor children of school age named in the complaint. It was alleged that the action was also prosecuted for the benefit of all other Negro minors similarly situated in the School District. The defendants were the Fort Worth Independent School…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Plessy v. FergusonSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Ex Parte BransfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Holophane Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Potts v. FlaxCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1963
- Arlene Flax v. W. S. PottsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
- Arlene Flax, Etc. v. W.S. Potts, Fort Worth Independent School District, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1990
- Flax v. PottsDistrict Court, N.D. Texas · 1983
- Arlene Flax, Etc. v. W.S. PottsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1989
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