Legal Opinion
Wright v. Council of Emporia
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 22, 1972No. 70-188PublishedCited by 276 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stewakt
We granted certiorari in this case, as in No. 70-130, United States v. Scotland Neck City Board of Education,1 post, p. 484, to consider the circumstances under *453which a federal court may enjoin state or local officials from carving out a new school district from an existing district that has not yet completed the process of dismantling a system of enforced racial segregation. We did not address ourselves-to this rather narrow question in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 U. S. 1, and its companion cases decided last Term,2 but the problem has confronted other federal…
2Cases cited23 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
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Green v. County School Board of New Kent CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Palmer v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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3Cited by276 opinions
- Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
- San Antonio Independent School District v. RodriguezSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Washington v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Albemarle Paper Co. v. MoodySupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Milliken v. BradleySupreme Court of the United States · 1974
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