Legal Opinion
Sue De La Cruz v. James Tormey
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 13, 1978No. 76-2791, 76-3355PublishedCited by 162 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PALMIERI, District Judge:
In this appeal we are called upon to determine whether a statutory and constitutional challenge to facially neutral but allegedly discriminatory official action may be resolved on the pleadings. The issues presented for review are narrow but significant, involving troublesome questions of legal interpretation and of the proper role of the federal judiciary in overseeing the decisions of local administrative bodies in the field of public education.
The plaintiffs are young women with low incomes burdened with the problems of child rearing, whose essential complaint is…
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