Legal Opinion
Boston's Children First v. Boston School Committee
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided January 25, 2002No. 99-11330-RGSPublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
STEARNS, District Judge.
The plaintiffs, ten white school-age children who reside in the City of Boston, joined by Boston’s Children First, an advocacy group, allege that the Boston School Committee’s race-based school assignment plan denied them admission to the public school of their choice in violation of federal and state law. The children seek either compensatory or nominal damages, as well as declaratory and injunctive relief. The defendants deny that in the majority of instances race was the determinative factor in the…
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