Board of Education of Oklahoma City v. Dowell, 498 U.S. 237 (1991), was a United States Supreme Court case "hasten[ing] the end of federal court desegregation orders."[1] The Court held that a federal desegregation order should be ended even though it meant that schools would become re-segregated since the Oklahoma schools had been arranged into a unitary system.
| Board of Education of Oklahoma City v. Dowell | |
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| Argued October 2, 1990 Decided January 15, 1991 | |
| Full case name | Board of Education of Oklahoma City Public Schools, Independent School District No. 80, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma v. Robert L. Dowell, et al. |
| Citations | 498 U.S. 237 (more) 111 S. Ct. 630; 112 L. Ed. 2d 715; 1991 U.S. LEXIS 484 |
| Case history | |
| Prior | Cert. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit |
| Holding | |
| The Court of Appeals' test for dissolving a desegregation decree is more stringent than is required either by this Court's decisions dealing with injunctions or by the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. | |
| Court membership | |
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| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Rehnquist, joined by White, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy |
| Dissent | Marshall, joined by Blackmun, Stevens |
| Souter took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. | |
| Laws applied | |
| U.S. Const. amend. XIV | |
See also
- National Gay Task Force v. Board of Education: An employment law case for the Oklahoma City schools
References
External links
- Text of Board of Education of Oklahoma City v. Dowell, 498 U.S. 237 (1991) is available from: Cornell CourtListener Google Scholar Justia Library of Congress Oyez (oral argument audio)