Legal Opinion
Lee v. Anniston City School System
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 26, 1984No. 83-7231PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:
The plaintiffs-appellants appeal a district .court order issued as part of the court’s continuing jurisdiction over the Anniston city school system. The court’s order granted defendant Anniston School Board’s petition for approval of the construction of a new middle school. The plaintiffs contend that the district court erred in approving the plan, because the plan does not achieve the greatest desegregation possible and because it involves the closing of a school in a black neighborhood, which the plaintiffs argue is racially motivated. Concluding that the district…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Larry Bonner v. City of Prichard, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1981
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Milliken v. BradleySupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Pasadena City Board of Education v. SpanglerSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Georgia State Conference of Branches of Naacp, Mary Alice Covin, Mary Laurant, Sylvia Dennis, and Naomi Tucker v. State of GeorgiaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
- Willie Eugene Pitts v. Robert FreemanCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
- Riddick v. School Board Of The City Of NorfolkCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1986
- Arnulfo M. Diaz Socorro Diaz v. San Jose Unified School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1988
- Julius C. Adams v. The Board of Public EducationCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
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