Legal Opinion
Reed v. Rhodes
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 10, 1999No. Nos. 96-3603, 96-3604PublishedCited by 303 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMerritt, J., joined by Edmunds, D. J.,
COLE, J. (pp. 473-88), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
The primary question in this school desegregation case is whether the Cleveland public school system, which has approximately 75,000 students, should be declared “unitary” so that the federal courts no longer control student assignments and no longer require the zoning and busing of students to achieve racial balance.
In 1973, Plaintiffs, who represent a certified class of all African-American students in the Cleveland public school system and their parents, successfully filed suit, alleging that…
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- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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3Cited by303 opinions
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