United States Eighth Circuit

District court judgment declaring the Little Rock School District to be completely unitary is affirmed where the court did not err err in finding that plaintiff had substantially complied with all of the obligations imposed upon it by the 2004 Compliance Remedy and the Revised Plan, and did not depart from the law of the case doctrine by employing a good faith compliance standard rather than the deeply embedded standard.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/02/2009
• Published 04/02/2009

Judges

• WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge., Before WOLLMAN, MELLOY, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John Winfred Walker, Sr., argued, Little Rock, AR, Robert Pressman, on the brief, Lexington, MA, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher Heller, argued, Scott P. Richardson, AAG, Mathew B. McCoy, AAG, amicus curie, on the brief, Little Rock, AR, for Appellee.