JENKINS v. STATE OF MO.

No. 77-0420-CV-W-4.

639 F.Supp. 19 (1985)

Kalima JENKINS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. STATE OF MISSOURI, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Missouri, W.D.

On Pending Motions June 16, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur A. Benson, II, Benson & McKay, Kansas City, Mo., and James S. Liebman, and Theodore M. Shaw, NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, New York City, for plaintiffs.

James Borthwick, Shirley Keeler, Blackwell, Sanders, Matheny, Weary & Lombardi, Kansas City, Mo., and Allen R. Snyder, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, D.C., for defendant KCMSD.

Bartow Farr, III, Onek, Klein & Farr, Washington, D.C. and Ann Wheeler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Mo., for defendant State of Mo.

Michael Gordon, Kansas City, Mo., for intervenor Amer. Fed. of Teachers.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

RUSSELL G. CLARK, Chief Judge.

INTRODUCTION

The function of a remedial plan in a school desegregation setting is to make the constitutional ideal of equal justice under the law a "living truth." Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1, 20, 78 S.Ct. 1401, 1410, 3 L.Ed.2d 5 (1958). The basic remedial principle, repeatedly articulated by the courts in school...

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