Legal Opinion
Linda Stout v. Gardendale City Board of Education
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 13, 2018No. 17-12338PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
This appeal requires that we revisit the decades-old task of school desegregation. A racial desegregation order issued in 1971 still governs the Jefferson County Board of Education in Alabama. But beginning in 2012, residents of the City of Gardendale, a predominantly white community in Jefferson County, sought to create a separate, municipal school system. Leaders of a grassroots movement used social media to discuss the changing racial demographics of their schools as they campaigned for the creation of a city school board and new taxes to support the proposed…
2Cases cited38 opinions
- Anderson v. City of Bessemer CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
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