United States Eleventh Circuit

Presence of racially identifiable schools in a district in a school system found to have engaged in past de jure segregation will not preclude a finding that the district has achieved unitary status so long as vestiges of past discrimination are eliminated to the extent practicable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/19/2001
• Published 11/19/2001

Judges

• HILL, Circuit Judge:, Before BARKETT, HILL and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael H. Sussman,Law Offices of Michael H. Sussman, Goshen, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ernst D. Mueller, Office of the Gen. Counsel, Jacksonville, FL, Maree Sneed, Patricia A. Brannan, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellee.