Legal Opinion
Lee v. Butler County Board of Education
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided February 5, 2002No. Civ. A. 70-T-3099-NPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.
In this longstanding school desegregation case, the plaintiffs, a class of black students, obtained relief from race discrimination in the operation of a de jure segregated school system. The defendants are the Butler County Board of Education, its members, and the County Superintendent of Education, as well as the Alabama State Board of Education, its members, the State Superintendent of Education, and the Governor of Alabama. The Butler County School Board and its members and superintendent have moved for declaration of unitary status and termination…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Larry Bonner v. City of Prichard, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1981
- Green v. County School Board of New Kent CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Hazelwood School District v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Dayton Board of Education v. BrinkmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Freeman v. PittsSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Lee v. Lee County Board of EducationDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 2007
- Lee v. Randolph Bd of EdDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 2021
- McNeal v. Tate County School DistrictDistrict Court, N.D. Mississippi · 2022
- San Francisco NAACP v. San Francisco Unified School DistrictDistrict Court, N.D. California · 2005