Legal Opinion
Hoots v. Pennsylvania
District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
Decided June 24, 2003No. Civil Action 71-538Published
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
COHILL, District Judge.
Before the Court is a motion filed by defendants Woodland Hills School District (“WHSD” or “the District”) and the Commonwealth' of Pennsylvania (Doc. 1284), seeking a declaration of unitary status 1 and the end of judicial supervision of the District’s schools. Plaintiffs, who represent a class of children and parents in the District, have filed a response in opposition. For the reasons set forth below, we will grant defendants’ motion in its entirety, and end more than thirty years of judicial oversight of the Woodland Hills School District.
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- Green v. County School Board of New Kent CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Milliken v. BradleySupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Board of Ed. of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. DowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Freeman v. PittsSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Coalition To Save Our Children v. State Board Of Education Of The State Of DelawareCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1996
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