Legal Opinion
Flax v. Potts
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided February 19, 1988No. Civ. A. 4205-EPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
MAHON, District Judge.
This Opinion concerns the viability of a limited portion of the Fort Worth Independent School District’s [FWISD] Desegregation Plan. The portion of the Plan in issue deals with the busing of 1233 elementary school students. After the 1983 amendments to the Desegregation Plan, this is all that remains of the number of students bused for desegregation purposes.
In the Beginning: An End of a Caste System
On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court of the United States announced in Brown v. Board of Education that “in the field of public education the…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- 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
- Pasadena City Board of Education v. SpanglerSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Arlene Flax, Etc. v. W.S. Potts, Fort Worth Independent School District, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1990
- Flax v. PottsDistrict Court, N.D. Texas · 1989
- Arlene Flax, Etc. v. W.S. PottsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1989