Legal Opinion
Taylor v. Board of Education of City School District of New Rochelle
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 31, 1961PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, District Judge.
I. History of the Litigation
In an opinion dated January 24, 1961, 1 this Court found that the Board of Education of the City of New Rochelle had intentionally created and maintained the Lincoln Elementary School as a racially segregated school, and had not acted in good faith to implement desegregation as required by the Fourteenth Amendment. It was the Court’s position that since the Board was responsible for the segregated condition at the Lincoln School, it owed the community the primary obligation to correct it. The Court thus requested the Board to…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Yick Wo v. HopkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Cooper v. AaronSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
- Orleans Parish School Board v. Earl Benjamin BushCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1957
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3Cited by33 opinions
- United States v. Jefferson County Board of EducationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- Hart v. Community Sch. Bd. of Brooklyn, NY Sch. D. 21District Court, E.D. New York · 1974
- Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond, VirginiaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1965
- Wilfred Keyes v. School District No. 1, Denver, Colorado, Wilfred Keyes v. School District No. 1, Denver, ColoradoCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1971
- Dowell v. School Board of Oklahoma City Public SchoolsDistrict Court, W.D. Oklahoma · 1965
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