Legal Opinion
Dowell v. BD. OF EDUC. OF OKLAHOMA CITY PUB. SCH.
District Court, W.D. Oklahoma
Decided November 7, 1991No. CIV-61-9452-BPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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I. PROCEDURAL HISTORY...............................................1149
II. THE INJUNCTION SHOULD BE DISSOLVED BECAUSE THE SCHOOL-BOARD HAS COMPLIED IN GOOD FAITH WITH ITS TERMS AND THE VESTIGES OF PRIOR SEGREGATION HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE ..........................................1156
A. The Oklahoma City School Board Has in Good Faith Fully Implemented and Complied with the Court’s 1972 Decree, and is Not Likely to Return to a System of De Jure Segregation....................................1156
B. The Vestiges of Prior De Jure School Segregation…
2Cases cited41 opinions
- Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Washington v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. FeeneySupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by14 opinions
- Curtis v. Oklahoma City Public Schools Board of EducationCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1998
- Hampton v. Jefferson County Board of EducationDistrict Court, W.D. Kentucky · 2000
- Capacchione v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg SchoolsDistrict Court, W.D. North Carolina · 1999
- Dowell v. Oklahoma City Public SchoolsCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1993
- Dowell ex rel. Dowell v. Board of EducationsCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1993
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