BRADLEY v. MILLIKEN

No. 20794.

433 F.2d 897 (1970)

Ronald BRADLEY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. William G. MILLIKEN, Governor of Michigan, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

October 13, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis R. Lucas, Memphis, Tenn., and Paul Dimond, Center of Law and Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., William E. Caldwell, Ratner, Sugarmon & Lucas, Memphis, Tenn., Nathaniel Jones, General Counsel, N. A. A. C. P., New York City, Bruce Miller and Lucille Watts, Detroit, Mich., for Legal Redress Committee, N. A. A. C. P., Detroit Branch, on the brief; J. Harold Flannery, Cambridge, Mass., of counsel, for appellants.

Eugene Krasicky, Lansing, Mich., and George E. Bushnell, Jr., Detroit, Mich., for appellees.

Frank J. Kelley, Atty. Gen., Eugene Krasicky, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert A. Derengoski, Sol. Gen., Lansing, Mich., on the brief, for William G. Milliken, Frank J. Kelley and John W. Porter.

Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, by George E. Bushnell, Jr. and Carl H. von Ende, Detroit, Mich., on the brief for Board of Education, Patrick McDonald, James Hathaway and Cornelius Golightly and Norman Drachler.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, and EDWARDS and PECK, Circuit Judges.


PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.

This case involves an effort by the Detroit Board of Education, as constituted on April 7, 1970, to effect a more balanced ratio of Negro and white students in twelve senior high schools. This effort was thwarted by an Act of the Michigan Legislature, Act No. 48, effective July 7, 1970, a copy of which is made an appendix to this opinion.

The appeal is under 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (a) from the interlocutory order of the District Court...

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