Westheimer Independent School District v. Brockette

GREENHILL, Chief Justice.

The court is not unmindful of the sweeping judgment of December 8, 1977, by the Federal District Court in Houston, which, in effect, wipes out the Westheimer Independent School District.1 The basis of that injunction order is that the creation and operation of the district interferes with the desegregation orders of the federal courts under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. As will be discussed below, the desegregation questions involving the Westheimer Independent School District have been before the federal courts since 1973, and no such problems…