PARENTS UNITED FOR DC PUBLIC SCHOOLS v. DC

Nos. 97-CV-1294 to 97-CV-1296.

699 A.2d 1121 (1997)

PARENTS UNITED FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 22, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred M. Mamlet, with whom Barbara K. Kagan and Andrea C. Evans, Washington, DC, were on the Joint Motion, for plaintiffs-appellants Parents United for the District of Columbia Public Schools, et al.

Donna M. Murasky, Assistant Corporation Counsel, with whom Jo Anne Robinson, Interim Corporation Counsel, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corporation Counsel, were on the Joint Motion, for defendants-appellants the District of Columbia, et al.

Thomas C. Papson, amicus curiae, Washington, DC, assigned by the court.*

Roderick V.O. Boggs, Washington, DC, Mary Levy, and the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs also entered an appearance.

Daniel A. Rezneck, General Counsel, District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, argued and filed a brief amicus curiae in behalf of appellants.

Before FARRELL and REID, Associate Judges, and NEWMAN, Senior Judge.


FARRELL, Associate Judge:

This court previously heard oral argument on appellants' Joint Emergency Motion for Summary Reversal and, in the Alternative, for a Stay of orders of the trial court (Kaye K. Christian) denying a joint request of the parties to permit certain public schools of the District of Columbia to open on September 2, 1997, even though roof replacement and repair work on those schools would not be finished by that date. At the conclusion of argument...

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