Ronald Bradley v. William G. Milliken, Governor, and Board of Education of the School District of the City of Detroit

HARRY PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.

On July 25, 1974, the Supreme Court remanded this case to the district court for “prompt formulation of a decree directed to eliminating the segregation found to exist in Detroit city schools, a remedy which has been delayed since 1970.” Milliken v. Bradley, 418 U.S. 717, 753, 94 S.Ct. 3112, 3131, 41 L.Ed.2d 1069 (1974) (Milliken I). Nearly six years have elapsed since that remand, and almost ten years since this litigation began, yet we are unable to hold on the record before us that de jure segregation has been eliminated from the Detroit school system.…