Legal Opinion
Singleton v. Jackson Municipal Separate School District
District Court, S.D. Mississippi
Decided December 8, 1981No. Civ. A. J3379PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
DAN M. RUSSELL, Jr., Chief Judge.
This action was commenced on March 4, 1963, by ten minor school age children against the School District. The Plaintiffs alleged that they suffered irreparable injury by the operation of a compulsory biracial school system by the School District. The first few years of litigation in this case were characterized by district court judgments in favor of the School District, followed by reversals of those judgments by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Following the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Alexander v.…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Green v. County School Board of New Kent CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Pasadena City Board of Education v. SpanglerSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Alexander v. Holmes County Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Davis v. Board of School Comm'rs of Mobile Cty.Supreme Court of the United States · 1971
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3Cited by11 opinions
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- Morgan v. NucciCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1987
- Arlene Flax, Etc. v. W.S. Potts, Fort Worth Independent School District, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1990
- Capacchione v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg SchoolsDistrict Court, W.D. North Carolina · 1999
- Brown v. TOPEKA BD. OF ED. SHAWNEE CTY., KAN.District Court, D. Kansas · 1987
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