Legal Opinion
Robert E. Quarles v. Oxford Municipal Separate School District
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 6, 1974No. 72-3534PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
2Per curiam
■ Appellees’ • petition for rehearing is hereby granted and accordingly our opinion of July 16, 1973 is withdrawn in favor of the one below.
Oxford’s otherwise successful recently desegregated school system is plagued by a transportation problem: hundreds of elementary school children must travel more than a mile and a half to school across dangerous terrain. As relief supplementary to its desegregation order of January 8, 1970, appellants requested the court below to order free transportation for all grade school children residing more than 1.5 miles from their…
3Cases cited3 opinions
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- United States v. Greenwood Municipal Separate School District, Lilly Russell v. Greenwood Municipal Separate School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
- Doris Elaine Brown v. The Board of Education of the City of Bessemer, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
4Cited by5 opinions
- Pete D. Arvizu v. Waco Independent School District, Patricia Ann Baisey v. The Board of Trustees of the Waco Independent School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
- Robert Earl Quarles, Cross-Appellees v. Oxford Municipal Separate School District, CrossCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1989
- United States of America, Janet Powell Dixon, Etc., and Harlem Civic Improvement Association, Intervening v. Hendry County School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
- Quarles v. Oxford Municipal Separate School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
- Sutton v. City of HattiesburgDistrict Court, S.D. Mississippi · 1973