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Not One Judge's Opinion: Morgan V. Hennigan And The Boston Schools, Roger Abrams
Not One Judge's Opinion: Morgan V. Hennigan And The Boston Schools, Roger Abrams
Roger I. Abrams
In this article, Professor Abrams, who was co-counsel in the Boston School Desegregation Case, explains how Federal District Court Judge Arthur Garrity reached his opinion that the Boston schools were segregated by race as a result of the intentional acts of the Boston School Committee and not because of housing patterns. Judge Garrity’s opinion was based on a decade of federal court decisions that relied upon school board decisions, such as the placement of new schools and the movement of school attendance zones, as evidence of the purposeful separation of students by race. Plaintiffs proved that the segregation in the …
The Labor Injunction And The Refusal To Cross Another Union's Picket Line, Roger Abrams
The Labor Injunction And The Refusal To Cross Another Union's Picket Line, Roger Abrams
Roger I. Abrams
This article addresses the difficult legal issues involved in labor sympathy strikes. The Supreme Court had earlier allowed for injunctions when a union strikes over a matter that could be brought to arbitration. Does a federal court have the power to enjoin sympathy strike when the strikers do not have a dispute with the primary employer that could be brought to arbitration? Professor Abrams explains why courts should not enjoin such sympathy strikes, an outcome later accepted by the Supreme Court.