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Constitutional Law-Equal Protection-Federal Court Cannot Order Multi-School District Remedy For Single District De Jure Segregation Absent An Interdistrict Violation
University of Richmond Law Review
The landmark decision of Brown v. Board of Education held that the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment prohibited a state from maintaining racially segregated public schools. After years of attempted but ineffective implementation of the mandate of Brown I, the Supreme Court attacked the issue with vigor in the late 1960's. State and local authorities-were placed under an affirmative duty to convert to a unitary school system which promised to work immediately towards the elimination of the discrimination inherent in state compelled dual school systems.
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 …