Board of Education of Oklahoma City v. Dowell
Board of Education of Oklahoma City v. Dowell | |
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Argued October 2, 1990 Decided January 15, 1991 | |
Full case name | Board of Education of Oklahoma City Public Schools, Independent School District No. 80, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma v. Robert L. Dowell, et al. |
Citations | 498 U.S. 237 (more) 111 S. Ct. 630; 112 L. Ed. 2d 715; 1991 U.S. LEXIS 484 |
Case history | |
Prior | Cert. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit |
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. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Rehnquist, joined by White, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy |
Dissent | Marshall, joined by Blackmun, Stevens |
Souter took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. | |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. amend. XIV |
Board of Education of Oklahoma City v. Dowell, 498 U.S. 237 (1991), was a 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 schools would become re-segregated since the Oklahoma schools had been arranged into a unitary system.
See also[]
- National Gay Task Force v. Board of Education: An employment law case for the Oklahoma City schools
References[]
- ^ Chemerinsky, Erwin (2005). Constitutional Law. New York: Aspen Publishers. p. 703.
External links[]
- Text of Board of Education of Oklahoma City v. Dowell, 498 U.S. 237 (1991) is available from: Cornell CourtListener Google Scholar Justia Library of Congress Oyez (oral argument audio)
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