Legal Opinion

Darrin Lewis, Sr. v. Ascension Parish School Board

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided November 3, 2011No. 09-30971PublishedCited by 23 opinions

1Per curiam

In this equal protection case, Darrin Lewis appeals from a grant of summary judgment in favor of the Ascension Parish School Board in Louisiana. The district court rejected Lewis’s claim that the School Board’s student assignment plan, formulated to address school population changes while “maintaining the district’s unitary status,” was impermissibly race-based and discriminatory against minority elementary, middle, and high school students zoned for East Ascension High School. We affirm in part, reverse in part and remand. Under the state of this record, we cannot determine whether the…

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2Cases cited28 opinions

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  5. Regents of the University of California v. BakkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1978

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