Board of Ed. of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. Dowell

Board of Ed. of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. Dowell

Infobox SCOTUS case
Litigants=Board of Ed. of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. Dowell
ArgueDate=October 2
ArgueYear=1990
DecideDate=January 15
DecideYear=1991
FullName=Board of Education of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. Dowell
USVol=498
USPage=237
Citation=
Prior=
Subsequent=
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.
SCOTUS=1990-1991
Majority=Rehnquist
JoinMajority=White, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy
Dissent=Marshall
JoinDissent=Blackmun, Stevens
NotParticipating=Souter
LawsApplied=

"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." [cite book |title=Constitutional Law |last=Chemerinsky |first=Erwin |authorlink=Erwin Chemerinsky |coauthors= |year=2005 |publisher=Aspen Publishers |location=New York |isbn= |pages=703 ] 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.

ee also

*List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 498

References

External links

* [http://www.enfacto.com/case/U.S./498/237/ Board of Ed. of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. Dowell, 498 U.S. 237 (1991)] (opinion full text).


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