SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF SPRINGFIELD v. BOARD OF EDUCATION


362 Mass. 417 (1972)

287 N.E.2d 438

SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF SPRINGFIELD v. BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

September 7, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Troy T. Murray, City Solicitor (James Dowe with him) for the plaintiff.

William E. Searson, III, Special Assistant Attorney General (Walter H. Mayo, III, Assistant Attorney General, with him) for the defendant.

William F. Malloy for Neighborhood Legal Services of Springfield, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: TAURO, C.J., SPIEGEL, REARDON, QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, & HENNESSEY, JJ.


TAURO, C.J.

The plaintiff school committee seeks an order directing the defendant State board of education (board) to release certain State school aid withheld from its use under the provisions of the racial imbalance law.1 By way of counterclaim to the school committee's amended substitute bill for judicial review, the board prays that the school committee be ordered to adopt one of three racial balance plans, as per the board's decision...

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