Legal Opinion
Ho ex rel. Ho v. San Francisco Unified School District
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 4, 1998No. Nos. 97-15926, 97-70378PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NOONAN, Circuit Judge:
By their parents and next friends, Brian Ho, aged 5, Patrick Wong, aged 14, and Hilary Chen, aged 8 (collectively Ho), brought this action in 1994 against the San Francisco Unified School District (the School District) and the other local and state defendants. The suit sought declaratory relief and an injunction forbidding the defendants from operating the public schools of San Francisco under a system of racial classification and quotas. Ho alleged that the defendants were violating the Fourteenth Amendment by adhering to paragraph 13 of a consent decree of fifty-five…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Yick Wo v. HopkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Shelley v. KraemerSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
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3Cited by2 opinions
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- Brian Ho, by His Parent and Next Friend, Carl Ho Patrick Wong, by His Parent and Next Friend, Charlene Wong Hilary Chen, by Her Parent and Next Friend, Jane Chen v. San Francisco Unified School District San Francisco Board of Education Waldemar Rojas, Superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education of the State of California California Department of Education William D. Dawson San Francisco National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Brian Ho, by His Parent and Next Friend, Carl Ho v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Unified School District, Real Party in InterestCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1998