Legal Opinion
Hobson Ex Rel. Hobson v. Hansen
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided June 19, 1967No. Civ. A. 82-66PublishedCited by 177 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge * :
SUMMARY
In Bolling v. Sharpe, 347 U.S. 497, 74 S.Ct. 693, 98 L.Ed. 884 (1954), the Supreme Court held that the District of Columbia’s racially segregated public school system violated the due-process clause of the Fifth Amendment. The present litigation, brought in behalf of Negro as well as poor children generally in the District’s public schools, tests-the current compliance of those schools-with the principles announced in Bolling, its companion case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686, 98 L.Ed. 873 (1954), and their progeny.…
2Cases cited78 opinions
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- Pointer v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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3Cited by177 opinions
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