PRIDE v. COMMUNITY SCH. BD. OF BROOKLYN, N.Y. SCH. D. #18

No. 637, Docket 72-2371.

482 F.2d 257 (1973)

Michael and Cynthia PRIDE, minors, by their mother and next friend Bulena Pride, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The COMMUNITY SCHOOL BOARD OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK SCHOOL DISTRICT #18, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 18, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James I. Meyersohn and Nathaniel R. Jones, N. A. A. C. P., New York City (I. Frederick Shotkin and Delson & Gordon, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Alfred Weinstein, New York City (Norman Redlich, Corp. Counsel of the City of New York, and Stanley Buchsbaum, New York City, on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before LUMBARD, HAYS and TIMBERS, Circuit Judges.


TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from the denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction sought by a group of parents of black and other non-white children residing in Tilden Houses, a public housing development in Brooklyn, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, to require the Community School Board for District No. 18 to assign their children to schools within the district in accordance with past practice.

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