Legal Opinion
Brewer v. West Irondequoit Central School District
District Court, W.D. New York
Decided January 14, 1999No. 6:98-cv-06393PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
LARIMER, Chief Judge.
The basic issue before the Court is whether a governmental body — a school district— can deny a child the opportunity to participate in a school-sponsored program on account of her race. The answer must be “no.” As Justice Lewis Powell said in his opinion for the Supreme Court in Regents of the Univ. of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265, 289, 98 S.Ct. 2733, 57 L.Ed.2d 750 (1978): “the guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded…
2Cases cited42 opinions
- Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. DoyleSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Washington v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Regents of the University of California v. BakkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. PenaSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Boston's Children First v. City of BostonDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1999
- Eisenberg ex rel. Eisenberg v. Montgomery County Public SchoolsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1999
- Brewer v. West Irondequoit Central School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2000
- Eisenberg v. Montgomery County Public SchoolsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1999
- Laurie A. Brewer, and Jodie Foster, Individually and as Parents and Guardians of Jessica L. Haak, a Minor v. The West Irondequoit Central School District, the Urban-Suburban Interdistrict Transfer Program, Monroe Number One Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Theresa J. Woodson, Gretchen Stephan and Marlene S. Allen, in Their Individual and Official CapacitiesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2000
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