UNITED STATES v. SCHOOL DISTRICT 151 OF COOK COUNTY, ILL.

Civ. A. No. 68 C 755.

301 F.Supp. 201 (1969)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. SCHOOL DISTRICT 151 OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Charles Watts, Superintendent of School District 151; Richard Graf, Wallace Davis, Louis Wiersma, Gerald Bennett, James Hendrix, Donald McGee, and Hobart Krillic, Members of the Board of Education of School District 151 of Cook County, Illinois, Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.

May 15, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Foran, U. S. Atty., Jack B. Schmetterer, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., J. Harold Flannery, Robert Pressman, Attys., John N. Mitchell, Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Louis Ancel, Marvin J. Glink and Ronald M. Glink, Chicago, Ill., John Merrill Van Der Aa, South Holland, Ill., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

JULIUS J. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

This is a civil rights action brought by the plaintiff under 42 U.S.C. Sec. 2000c-6(a) seeking an order directing the defendants to desegregate grammar schools in Illinois School District 151. On July 8th, 1968, and after extensive hearings, the district court determined that the defendants and their predecessors were guilty of denying Negro children in District 151 equal protection of the law in...

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