MORGAN v. McDONOUGH

Civ. A. No. 72-911-G.

554 F.Supp. 169 (1982)

Tallulah MORGAN et al., Plaintiffs, v. John J. McDONOUGH et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

December 23, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry Johnson, Center for Law and Educ., Gutman Library, Cambridge, Mass., Laurence S. Fordham, Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, Mass., for plaintiffs.

Caroline Playter, Boston, Mass., Kenneth Kimberling, Puerto Rican Legal Defense, New York City, for El Comite.

Robert Blumenthal, State Board of Educ., Quincy, Mass., Robert H. Bohn, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Bohn & Kaplan, Boston, Mass., for State Bd. of Educ.

Steven P. Perlmutter, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Boston, Mass., for Mayor, City of Boston.

James T. Grady, Grady & McDonald, Boston, Mass., for BTU-Boston Teachers Union.

Richard W. Coleman, Segal, Roitman & Coleman, Boston, Mass., for BASAS-Boston Ass'n of School Administrators and Supervisors.

Thayer Fremont-Smith, Choate, Hall & Stewart, Boston, Mass., for Boston Home and School Ass'n.

Martin A. Walsh, Community Relations Service, Boston, Mass., for Community Relations.

Jim Stanton, Acting Staff Director, Citywide Parents' Council/Transition Committee, Boston, Mass., for Transition Committee.

Marshall Simonds, Henry C. Dinger, Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, Boston, Mass., for Boston School Committee and Boston School Dept.

Michael Betcher, Boston School Committee, Maura McGroarty, Boston School Committee, Dept. of Implementation, Nancy Gertner, Silvergate & Gertner, Boston, Mass., Thomas I. Atkins, NAACP Gen. Counsel, N.A.A.C.P. Special Contribution Fund, Brooklyn, N.Y., Wm. Shaw McDermott, McDermott & Rizzo, Boston, Mass., for Concerned Black Educators of Boston.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDERS OF DISENGAGEMENT

GARRITY, District Judge.

Introduction

The vestiges of pervasive and long-standing purposeful discrimination in public education are neither simply nor quickly eradicated. This court found in 1974 that the constitutional rights of minority students in the Boston public schools had been violated. In subsequent years, the court formulated and has actively participated in implementing an appropriate remedy...

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