JOHNSON v. CHICAGO BOARD OF EDUCATION

No. 81-1097.

457 U.S. 52 (1982)

JOHNSON ET AL. v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 7, 1982.


PER CURIAM.

This case was commenced by petitioners challenging the voluntary adoption by the Board of Education of the city of Chicago of racial quotas on enrollment at two high schools. Petitioners alleged that the quotas, purportedly designed to arrest "white flight," were unlawful because they resulted in the denial of admission to those schools of some black applicants but no white applicants. The District Court upheld the plan, and the Court of Appeals affirmed...

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