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| Board of Ed. of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. Dowell | ||
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| Argued October 2, 1990 Decided January 15, 1991 |
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| Holding | ||
| The Court of Appeals' test for dissolving a desegregation decree is more stringent than is required either by this Court's decisions dealing with injunctions or by the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. | ||
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| Chief Justice: William Rehnquist Associate Justices: Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter |
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| Case opinions | ||
| Majority by: Rehnquist Joined by: White, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy Dissent by: Marshall Joined by: Blackmun, Stevens Souter took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. |
Board of Education of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. Dowell, 498 U.S. 237 (1991), United States Supreme Court case "hasten[ing] the end of federal court desegregation orders."1 The Court held that a federal desegregation order should be ended even though it meant that that schools would become re-segregated since a the Oklahoma schools had been arranged into a unitary system.
See also
References
- ^ Chemerinsky, Erwin (2005). Constitutional Law. New York: Aspen Publishers, 703.
External links
- Board of Ed. of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. Dowell, 498 U.S. 237 (1991) (opinion full text).
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