Legal Opinion
Delores Ross v. Houston Independent School District
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 16, 1983No. 81-2323PublishedCited by 102 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
In 1956, two years after the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686, 98 L.Ed.2d 873 (1954) (Brown I), a group of parents of black children enrolled in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) filed this suit to desegregate its schools. After twenty-five years of court proceedings and twelve years of operation under a court-ordered desegregation plan, the district court has now decided that the school district has eliminated all vestiges of de jure segregation and has become unitary. The vestiges of all…
2Cases cited44 opinions
- Foman v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Pullman-Standard v. SwintSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1971
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3Cited by102 opinions
- Topalian v. EhrmanCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1992
- Taquino v. Teledyne Monarch RubberCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1990
- Bill E. Davis v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1991
- Morgan v. NucciCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1987
- Jenkins v. MissouriCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1986
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