Legal Opinion
Knight v. Alabama
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 24, 1994No. 92-6160PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:
This lawsuit challenges the structure of and allocation of resources under Alabama’s system of public higher education, charging that the State of Aabama and the other defendant institutions have not fulfilled their obligation to remedy vestiges of past de jure segregation that remain in the current sys-tern. In December 1991, following a bench trial, the district court found liability and ordered the state defendants to take various remedial measures. Plaintiffs filed this appeal challenging several aspects of the district court’s decision. Then, in June 1992, the…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Warth v. SeldinSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Larry Bonner v. City of Prichard, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1981
- Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. DoyleSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Singleton v. WulffSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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3Cited by35 opinions
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- Gorman-Bakos v. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schenectady CountyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2001
- Lessie Anderson v. Cagle's, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2007
- DeKalb County School District v. SchrenkoCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1997
- Hodak v. City of St. PetersCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2008
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