Legal Opinion
Washington v. Seattle School District No. 1
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 30, 1982No. 81-9PublishedCited by 296 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blackmun
We are presented here with an extraordinary question: whether an elected local school board may use the Fourteenth Amendment to defend its program of busing for integration from attack by the State.
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A
Seattle School District No. 1 (District), which is largely coterminous with the city of Seattle, Wash., is charged by state law with administering 112 schools and educating approximately 54,000 public school students. About 37% of these *460children are of Negro, Asian, American Indian, or Hispanic ancestry. Because segregated housing patterns in Seattle have created racially imbalanced schools, the…
2Cases cited36 opinions
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3Cited by296 opinions
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