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GREEN v. COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD

No. 695.

391 U.S. 430 (1968)

GREEN ET AL. v. COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD OF NEW KENT COUNTY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 27, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel W. Tucker and Jack Greenberg argued the cause for petitioners. With them on the brief were James M. Nabrit III, Henry L. Marsh III, and Michael Meltsner.

Frederick T. Gray argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief were Robert Y. Button, Attorney General of Virginia, Robert D. McIlwaine III, First Assistant Attorney General, and Walter E. Rogers.

Louis F. Claiborne argued the cause for the United States, as amicus curiae. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Griswold, Assistant Attorney General Pollak, Lawrence G. Wallace, and Brian K. Landsberg.

Joseph B. Robison filed a brief for the American Jewish Congress, as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question for decision is whether, under all the circumstances here, respondent School Board's adoption of a "freedom-of-choice" plan which allows a pupil to choose his own public school constitutes adequate compliance with the Board's responsibility "to achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a nonracial basis . . . ." Brown v. ...

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