United States First Circuit

Claiming that defendant's race-conscious assignment system violated children's rights under the Equal Protection clause, the Court applied the rational basis review standard and found that defendant's satisfied the requirements of the reasonableness test.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/12/2004
• Published 07/12/2004

Judges

• LIPEZ, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, and LYNCH and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Williams, with whom Robert J. Roughsedge, Chester Darling, and Citizens for the Preservation of Constitutional Rights, Inc., were on brief, for appellants., Sharon L. Brown on brief for amicus curiae Pacific Legal Foundation.


• For Appellees:
  
• Frances S. Cohen, with whom Erica L. Hovani, Matthew M. Lyons, and Dechert LLP, were on brief, for appellees.