EVANS v. BUCHANAN

Civ. A. Nos. 1816-1822.

512 F.Supp. 839 (1981)

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

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

April 10, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irving Morris, Joseph A. Rosenthal, and Kevin Gross, Morris & Rosenthal, Louis L. Redding, Leonard L. Williams, Wilmington, Del., Louis R. Lucas, Picard, Canale, Caywood, Lucas & Watson, Memphis, Tenn., Paul R. Dimond, O'Brien, Moran & Dimond, Ann Arbor, Mich., William L. Taylor, Center for National Policy Review, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

Nivea R. Castro Figueroa, and Paulette Sullivan Moore, Community Legal Aid Society, Inc., Wilmington, Del., for intervening Hispanic plaintiffs.

Henry N. Herndon, Jr., and P. Clarkson Collins, Jr., Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams, Wilmington, Del., for the New Castle County Bd. of Ed.

Richard S. Gebelein, Atty. Gen., State of Delaware, Regina M. Small, State Sol., and Roger A. Akin, Deputy Atty. Gen., State of Delaware, Wilmington, Del., for State of Delaware.

William Poole, James F. Burnett, and Vincent M. Amberly, Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, Del., for Interim Bd. for Dist. 1.

James T. McKinstry, and Robert J. Katzenstein, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del., for Interim Bd. for Dist. 2 and Dist. 4.

Mason E. Turner, Jr., Prickett, Jones, Elliott, Kristol & Schnee, Wilmington, Del., Sp. Counsel to the Delaware State Bd. of Ed., for Interim Bd. for Dist. 3 and for State of Del.


OPINION

MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ, District Judge.

This opinion treats a distinct phase of this protracted desegregation litigation.1 The Court must pass upon the merits of a school district reorganization adopted pursuant to state legislation that would divide a single court-created school district into four independent school districts.

During the latter part of June, 1980, the Delaware Legislature passed Senate Bill No. 593...

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