Legal Opinion
United States v. City of Yonkers
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 22, 1999No. Docket Nos. 97-6284, 97-6338PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge SACK concurs in part and dissents in part in a separate opinion.
JACOBS, Circuit Judge:
In 1996, this Court affirmed findings by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Sand, J.) that the State of New York had been aware of de jure segregation by the City of Yonkers in its public schools, and that the State failed to take corrective measures. See United States v. City of Yonkers, 96 F.3d 600, 611 (2d Cir.1996). At the same time, we held (reversing the district court) that the State could for that reason be liable under the Fourteenth Amendment or the Equal…
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3Cited by15 opinions
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