Legal Opinion
Frances Spurlock v. David Fox
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 10, 2013No. 12-5978PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RONALD LEE GILMAN, Circuit Judge.
This is a class-action lawsuit alleging racial resegregation in the Nashville public school system. In July 2008, the Metropolitan Nashville Board of Public Education (the Board) adopted a new student-assignment plan generally referred to as the Rezoning Plan. The Rezoning Plan modified the student-assignment plan that had been in place since the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools District (the District) achieved unitary status (i.e., became desegregated) in 1998. One of the modifications effected by the Rezoning Plan was to eliminate the so-called…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Yick Wo v. HopkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Hernandez v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
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3Cited by22 opinions
- Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless v. HustedCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2016
- St. Joan Antida High School In v. Milwaukee Public School DistriCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2019
- Boston Parent Coalition for Acad. Excellence Corp. v. The School Committee of the City of BostonCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2021
- Smith v. HendersonDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2013
- Darrin Lewis, Sr. v. Ascension Parish SchooCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2015
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