Legal Opinion
Dowell v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF OKLAHOMA CITY PUB. SCH.
District Court, W.D. Oklahoma
Decided February 1, 1972No. Civ. 9452PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
BOHANON, Chief Judge.
This is another step in the struggle to implement the constitutional imperative for a unitary school system in the Oklahoma City School District. This case has been before this court in one posture or another for about ten years. Although unnecessary to detail every facet of the complex history of this litigation, every action of this court has been predicated upon the finding that as historically administered, the policies of the Defendant School Board have reflected a system of state imposed and state preserved segregation, and that because it had…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Shelley v. KraemerSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- 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
- Griffin v. School Bd. of Prince Edward Cty.Supreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Board of Ed. of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. DowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Tallulah Morgan v. John J. Kerrigan, Boston Home and School Association, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellant, Kevin H. White, Etc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1976
- Curtis v. Oklahoma City Public Schools Board of EducationCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1998
- Morgan v. KerriganDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1975
- Dowell v. Board Of EducationCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1986
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