EVANS v. BUCHANAN

Civ. A. Nos. 1816, 1822.

416 F.Supp. 328 (1976)

Brenda EVANS et al., Plaintiffs, v. Madeline BUCHANAN et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

May 19, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis L. Redding, Irving Morris, and Joseph A. Rosenthal, of Morris & Rosenthal, Wilmington, Del., for individual plaintiffs.

Louis R. Lucas, of Ratner, Sugarmon & Lucas, Memphis, Tenn., Richard Allen Paul, Wilmington, Del., for intervening plaintiffs, The Board of Education of the City of Wilmington.

William Prickett, and Mason E. Turner, of Prickett, Ward, Burt & Sanders, Wilmington, Del., Philip B. Kurland, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

John P. Sinclair, and William Poole, of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Thomas S. Lodge, of Connolly, Bove & Lodge, Sheldon N. Sandler, of Bader, Dorsey & Kreshtool, Samuel R. Russell, of Biggs & Battaglia, Edward W. Cooch, Jr., of Cooch & Taylor, Wilmington, Del., Jerome O. Herlihy, of Herlihy & Herlihy, Clifford B. Hearn, of Balick & Hearn, Christian White, Stephen R. Spiller, Aida Waserstein, Wilmington, Del., Oscar Garcia-Rivera, Richard J. Hiller, and Herbert Teitelbaum, New York City, James T. McKinstry, of Richards, Layton & Finger, James M. Tunnell, Jr., and Richard D. Allen, of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Howard M. Handelman, of Bayard, Brill & Handelman, William H. Bennethum, Wilmington, Del., for intervenors and amici.

Before GIBBONS, Circuit Judge, WRIGHT and LAYTON, Senior District Judges.


OPINION

CALEB M. WRIGHT, Senior District Judge.

This case arises under the continuing jurisdiction of this Court to implement prior opinions finding unconstitutional segregation in the public schools in Delaware.1 The instant opinion concerns the choice of an appropriate remedy for constitutional violations in the operation of the schools of Wilmington and the surrounding suburban districts and the requirement of an inter-district...

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