Legal Opinion
People Who Care v. Rockford Board of Education, School District No. 205
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 15, 1997No. Nos. 96-2410, 96-3244, 96-4090, 96-3022, 96-3283, 96-4138, 96-3226, 96-3662, 97-1157, 97-1116PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
We have consolidated for argument and decision nine separate appeals, plus one petition for mandamus, arising out of the remedial phase of the Rockford, Illinois desegregation litigation. The current lawsuit is “only” eight years old, but litigation over racial segregation in the Rockford public schools began a quarter of a century ago, see Quality Education for All Children, Inc. v. School Board, 362 F.Supp. 985 (N.D.Ill.1973), and we have heard many appeals in it. The recent flurry of appeals, threatening to become an avalanche, induced us to direct that all pending and…
2Cases cited59 opinions
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- Rizzo v. GoodeSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- United States v. NixonSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
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- People Who Care v. Rockford Board of EducationDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1998
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