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Federal Appeals Court Will Hear Busing Case Today
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston will hear arguments today in the most significant public school busing case to be heard in decades, which involves the public schools in Lynn. Under a ruling by trial judge Nancy Gertner, any public school system would be free to use busing in order to racially balance its schools. The First Circuit will be reviewing whether such policies are permitted by the Constitution. The lawyers who oppose the busing of students out of the neighborhoods where they live are Chester Darling and Michael Williams, who is lead attorney in the case. The plaintiffs are parents and children of various races who object to their children being bused to a strange area.. Although trial judges in federal courts in Boston are supposed to be picked at random, cases filed by Atty. Darling have often gotten the liberal Gertner named as the judge. Her husband heads the ACLU in Boston. The case challenges the state’s “Racial Imbalance Law,” which gives additional state aid to local school systems that adopt race-based student assignment plans. Copies of both parties’ briefs are available at www.JulyFourth.net |
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