Legal Opinion
Women's Equity Action League v. Lauro F. Cavazos, Secretary of Education
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 7, 1989No. 88-5065, 88-5068 to 88-5071 and 88-5088PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:
We confront in this case, commenced in district court in 1970, a fundamental question of standing to sue. We hold that plaintiffs have satisfied that threshold requirement and order that remaining issues in the case be briefed and argued in this court pursuant to a schedule settled by the parties with the assistance of the court’s Chief Staff Counsel.
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This omnibus action opened in 1970 when black students attending racially segregated public schools in seventeen southern and border states…
2Cases cited30 opinions
- Warth v. SeldinSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Allen v. WrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights OrganizationSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Cannon v. University of ChicagoSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by23 opinions
- National Wrestling Coaches Ass'n v. Department of EducationCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2004
- Women's Equity Action League v. Lauro F. Cavazos, Secretary of EducationCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1990
- The Freedom Republicans, Inc. v. Federal Election CommissionCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1994
- Gale Coker v. Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1990
- Suss v. American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1993
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