Legal Opinion
Lashawn A. v. Marion S. Barry, Jr., as Mayor of the District of Columbia
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 30, 1996No. 94-7044PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Dissenting opinion filed by Circuit Judge RANDOLPH.
STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
This case appears before us for the second time, with the defendants — the mayor and other officials of the District of Columbia— asking for relief from a consent decree pursuant to which the district court is exercising broad supervisory authority over the District’s child welfare system. Because the district court has not re-examined the validity of the federal claims underlying its jurisdiction since the Supreme Court issued a decision that seems to undermine the statutory support for federal jurisdiction…
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