Legal Opinion
Potts v. Flax
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 6, 1963No. 19639PublishedCited by 96 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order of the District Court requiring that the Fort Worth Independent School District file within a prescribed time a plan for the desegregation of the Fort Worth Public Schools.1 Only one question of any real moment is presented, and that is the procedural one of whether this was shown to have been a class action. It is perhaps ironic that it arises in a context in which on the substantive merits there cannot be the slightest doubt that the District Court’s order was a moderate and restrained response to the imperative need for judicial…
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