Pasadena City Board of Education v. Spangler

Pasadena City Board of Education v. Spangler, 427 U.S. 424 (1976), was a United States Supreme Court case.

Pasadena City Board of Education v. Spangler
Argued April 27–28, 1976
Decided June 28, 1976
Full case namePasadena City Board of Education, et al. v. Spangler, et al.
Citations427 U.S. 424 (more)
96 S. Ct. 2697; 49 L. Ed. 2d 599; 1976 U.S. LEXIS 77
Holding
The District Court exceeded the limits of its power and authority in refusing to modify a desegregation order.
Court membership
Chief Justice
Warren E. Burger
Associate Justices
William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart
Byron White · Thurgood Marshall
Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr.
William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
MajorityRehnquist, joined by Burger, Stewart, White, Blackmun, Powell
DissentMarshall, joined by Brennan
Stevens took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

Parties and litigants

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Phil C. Neal argued the cause for petitioners; with him on the briefs were Lee G. Paul, Peter D. Collisson, Robert G. Lane, Philip B. Kurland, and Alan L. Unikel.

Fred Okrand argued the cause and filed a brief for respondents Spangler et al. Solicitor General Bork argued the cause for the United States. With him on the brief were Assistant Attorney General Pottinger, Deputy Solicitor General Wallace, and Brian K. Landsberg.[1]

Raymond B. Witt, Jr., filed a brief for the Board of Education of Chattanooga, Tenn., as amicus curiae. [427 U.S. 424, 427]

References

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  1. ^ Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed by Vilma Socorro Martínez and Morris J. Baller for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund; by Nathaniel R. Jones, William L. Taylor, Paul R. Dimond, William E. Caldwell, Norman J. Chachkin, Thomas D. Barr, John W. Douglas, J. Harold Flannery, Albert E. Jenner, Jr., Milan C. Miskovsky, Whitney North Seymour, and Chesterfield Smith for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People et al.; by Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit III, Charles Stephen Ralston, Drew S. Days III, and Melvin Leventhal for the N. A. A. C. P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.; by Ralph J. Moore, Jr., Richard M. Sharp, David Rubin, Peter T. Galiano, and Horace Wheatley for the National Education Assn. et al.; and by Nathaniel S. Colley for the Western Regional Office, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al.
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