United States Eleventh Circuit

To rebut a finding of de jure segregation in public schools, a school board is not required to show it has eliminated the vestiges of past discrimination to the maximum extent practicable, but merely to the extent practicable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/16/2001
• Published 03/19/2001

Judges

• BLACK, Circuit Judge:, Before BLACK, FAY and COX, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Walter Crosby Few,Few & Ayala, Thomas M. Gonzalez, Arnold B. Corsmeier, Thompson, Sizemore & Gonzalez, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Defendants-Appellants., Victor Allen Bolden, Wiggin & Dana, New Haven, CT, Jacqueline A. Berrien, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York City, Warren Hope Dawson, Dawson and Griffin, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.