Legal Opinion
Berry v. School District of City of Benton Harbor
District Court, W.D. Michigan
Decided August 7, 1978No. C.A. 9PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FOX, Chief Judge.
This opinion marks the conclusion of Phase II of these lengthy school desegregation proceedings. In an opinion issued August 23, 1977, at the end of Phase I of this action on remand from the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, this court ruled that the Benton Harbor Area School District had failed to rebut the prima facie case of de jure segregation established against it during an earlier trial.
The present opinion is concerned with the liability of those parties who have been referred to as the “added defendants” during the course of these proceedings: William G.…
2Cases cited32 opinions
- 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
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Green v. County School Board of New Kent CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Berry v. School Dist. of City of Benton HarborDistrict Court, W.D. Michigan · 1978
- Berry v. School District of City of Benton HarborDistrict Court, W.D. Michigan · 1980
- Berry v. Sch. Dist. of City of Benton HarborDistrict Court, W.D. Michigan · 1981
- Berry v. School Dist. of City of Benton HarborDistrict Court, W.D. Michigan · 2002
- Barbara Jean Berry v. School District of the City of Benton Harbor, and Michigan Education Association, InterveningCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1986
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