Legal Opinion
United States v. Texas Education Agency (Lubbock Independent School District)
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 9, 1979No. 78-2526PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHARLES CLARK, Circuit Judge:
On August 19, 1970, the United States filed this action against the Lubbock, Texas, Independent School District (LISD) alleging that the Lubbock School Board had founded and maintained a segregated school system in violation of the fourteenth amendment. After allowing the parties to submit evidence, the district court ordered the School Board to integrate two of the District’s all-black schools, Dunbar High School and Struggs Junior High School, by altering the attendance zones for those schools to encompass areas in which whites lived. Although the district court…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Washington v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. FeeneySupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by18 opinions
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- Tasby v. WrightDistrict Court, N.D. Texas · 1981
- United States v. TexasDistrict Court, E.D. Texas · 1981
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