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U. S. v. SCHOOL DIST. OF CITY OF FERNDALE, MICH.

Civ. A. Nos. 75-70958, 76-70871.

499 F.Supp. 367 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, and Jonathan Martin, a minor, by his mother and next friend, Dian Martin; Darnell Evans, a minor, by his mother and next friend, Verna Evans; Charlie Morgan and David Morgan, minors, by their mother and next friend, Gloria Morgan; Heidi Riley and Angela Riley, minors, by their mother and next friend, Carla Riley; Crystal Thomas, a minor, by her mother and next friend, Zeneth Thomas; Doris Dillworth and Geraldine Murry, Plaintiffs-Intervenors, v. SCHOOL DISTRICT OF the CITY OF FERNDALE, MICHIGAN; Members of the Board of Education of Ferndale, Michigan; the State of Michigan; William Milliken, Governor of Michigan; Michigan State Board of Education; John W. Porter, Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Michigan, S. D.

October 7, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Iris McCollum Green, General Litigation Section, Civil Rights Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

William Waterman, Waterman, Hooe, Curry & Hughes, Pontiac, Mich., for intervening plaintiffs.

Burton A. Shifman, John A. Carlson, Shifman & Goodman, Southfield, Mich., for School Dist. of the City of Ferndale.

Frank Kelley, Atty. Gen., by Gerald F. Young, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lansing, Mich., for state defendants.

OPINION

GILMORE, District Judge.

For more than a decade, the Ferndale School District has been defending itself, either in Court or in administrative hearings, because it operated an intentionally segregated school, the Ulysses S. Grant School, for the great majority of black students in the District. The instant litigation, filed in 1974, seeks to require the District to desegregate the Grant School. It has been to the Court of Appeals twice. It is now...

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