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Comment: Desegregation -- The Times They Are A-Changin', Larry M. Storm
Comment: Desegregation -- The Times They Are A-Changin', Larry M. Storm
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Courts are currently concerned over the extent of their powers to integrate racially separate housing and schools within metropolitan areas containing black inner cities and white suburbs. This Comment reviews the jurisprudence addressing when it is a proper exercise of a court's equity jurisdiction to fashion a metropolitan or interdistrict remedial order in which the city and its surrounding suburbs are treated as one system. The Comment focuses on the recent Supreme Court decision in Milliken v. Bradley, in which the Court reversed a decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals which upheld the district court's power to order …