Legal Opinion
Lee v. Lee County Board of Education
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided April 21, 1997No. Civil Action 845-E, 848-E, 849-E, 850-E, 851-E, 853-E, 854-E, 855-E, 3099-N, 3102-N and 3103-NPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
MYRON H. THOMPSON, Chief Judge.
In an order entered in these eleven longstanding school desegregation cases on February 12, 1997, the court stated that “the parties should now move toward ‘unitary status’ for the school systems in these cases and for the termination of the litigation in these cases.” In a later order entered on March 14, 1997, the court established what it believed would be “an orderly procedure through which the defendant school systems could achieve unitary status so that control over these systems may be returned to local authorities operating in compliance with the…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Green v. County School Board of New Kent CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Board of Ed. of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. DowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Freeman v. PittsSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Missouri v. JenkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Hall, Moffett v. Alabama Association of School Boards, Sandra Sims-DegraffenreidCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2003
- Lee v. Butler County Board of EducationDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 2002
- Lee v. Lee County Board of EducationDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 2007
- Lee v. Randolph Bd of EdDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 2021