Legal Opinion
Flax v. Potts
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided June 17, 1983No. Civ. A. CA 4-4205-EPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
MAHON, District Judge.
I. Background
Five years after the United States Supreme Court declared that “[sjeparate edu cational facilities are inherently unequal,” in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686, 98 L.Ed. 873 (1954) (hereinafter “Brown I ”), two fathers of black children in the Fort Worth Independent School District filed this suit to desegregate its schools. On December 14, 1961, the dual racial system of the Fort Worth Schools was held to be unconstitutional and the school district was ordered by the Honorable Leo Brewster to submit…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Green v. County School Board of New Kent CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Delores Ross v. Houston Independent School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
- Arlene Flax v. W. S. PottsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Arlene Flax, Etc. v. W.S. Potts, Fort Worth Independent School District, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1990
- Flax v. PottsDistrict Court, N.D. Texas · 1989
- Arlene Flax, Etc. v. W.S. PottsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1989
- Flax v. PottsDistrict Court, N.D. Texas · 1988
- Bailey v. Board of Commissioners of the Louisiana Stadium and Exposition DistrictDistrict Court, E.D. Louisiana · 2020
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