SEATTLE SCHOOL DIST. NO. 1 v. STATE OF WASH.

Nos. 79-4643, 79-4655, 79-4676, 79-4740, 79-4801 and 79-4802.

633 F.2d 1338 (1980)

SEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. The STATE OF WASHINGTON et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 16, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Camden M. Hall, Foster, Pepper & Riviera, Seattle, Wash., for Seattle School Dist.

Hall Baetz, Davis, Wright, Todd, Riese & Jones, et al., Seattle, Wash., for Pasco Neighborhood Council.

Slade Gorton, Atty. Gen. & Thomas F. Carr, Asst. Atty. Gen., Olympia, Wash., Michael W. Hoge, Seattle, Wash., for State of Washington.

Frederick Noland, MacDonald, Hoague & Bayless, Seattle, Wash., Robert J. Reinstein, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Civ. Liberties.

Stew Cogan, Seattle, Wash., for Pasco Neighborhood Council.

Before ELY, WRIGHT and NELSON, Circuit Judges.


ELY, Circuit Judge:

This cause comes before the Court in an unusual posture. Local elected school authorities, who so often in the past in other jurisdictions have resisted court-ordered integration, have in this instance invoked the jurisdiction of the federal courts because their self-generated efforts to achieve racial balance in the public schools have been hindered by governmental action. Successful, locally-formulated public school desegregation programs in...

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