Legal Opinion
Crawford v. Board of Ed. of Los Angeles
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 30, 1982No. 81-38PublishedCited by 136 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Powell
An amendment to the California Constitution provides that state courts shall not order mandatory pupil assignment or transportation unless a federal court would do so to remedy a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The question for our decision is whether this provision is itself in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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This litigation began almost 20 years ago in 1963, when minority students attending school in the Los Angeles Unified School District (District) filed a class action in state court *530seeking desegregation of…
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