ARTHUR v. NYQUIST

No. Civ-1972-325.

514 F.Supp. 1133 (1981)

George ARTHUR et al., Plaintiffs, v. Ewald P. NYQUIST et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. New York.

May 19, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay, Klif & Morrison, Buffalo, N. Y. (David G. Jay, Buffalo, N. Y., of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Joseph P. McNamara, Corp. Counsel of the City of Buffalo, Buffalo, N. Y. (Aubrey McCutcheon, Sp. Counsel, William E. Carey, Asst. Corp. Counsel, and James P. Caher, Deputy Corp. Counsel, Buffalo, N. Y., of counsel), for Mayor James D. Griffin, Superintendent of Schools Eugene T. Reville, The Board of Education, and the Common Council of the City of Buffalo, defendants.

James A. W. McLeod, Buffalo, N. Y., for plaintiff-intervenor Citizens for Quality Education.

Jaeckle, Fleischmann & Mugel, Buffalo, N. Y. (J. Edmund deCastro, Jr., Buffalo, N. Y., of counsel), for plaintiff-intervenor Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Serotte, Harasym & Reich, Buffalo, N. Y. (Bruce A. Goldstein, Buffalo, N. Y., of counsel), for plaintiff-intervenor John Bushey.

Robert Clearfield, Buffalo, N. Y., for intervenor Buffalo Teachers Federation.


CURTIN, Chief Judge.

"We support integration as the priority education strategy; it is essential to the future of American society. In this [1967] summer's disorders we have seen the consequences of racial isolation at all levels, and of attitudes toward race, on both sides, produced by three centuries of myth, ignorance, and bias. It is indispensable that opportunities for interaction between races be expanded."

Report of the National Commission on Civil...

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