Legal Opinion
Mills v. Board of Education of District of Columbia
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided August 1, 1972No. Civ. A. 1939-71PublishedCited by 134 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION, JUDGMENT AND DECREE
WADDY, District Judge.
This is a civil action brought on behalf of seven children of school age by their next friends in which they seek a declaration of rights and to enjoin the defendants from excluding them from the District of Columbia Public Schools and/or denying them publicly supported education and to compel the defendants to provide them with immediate and adequate education and educational facilities in the public schools or alternative placement at public expense. They also seek additional and ancillary relief to effectuate the primary relief.…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Goldberg v. KellySupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Bolling v. SharpeSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- St. John Dixon v. Alabama State Board of EducationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1961
- Hobson Ex Rel. Hobson v. HansenDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1967
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3Cited by134 opinions
- Goss v. LopezSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Board of Education of the Hendrick Hudson Central School District v. Rowley Ex Rel. RowleySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Honig v. DoeSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- School Committee of the Town of Burlington v. Department of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Tennessee v. LaneSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
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