Burton v. City of Belle Glade

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• recognizing that Title VI claims are governed by the same statute of limitations as § 1983 claims
• holding that where “the injunction does no more than instruct a defendant to ‘obey the law,’” the injunction is too broad and vague to be enforced
• holding that a district court’s sua sponte grant of summary judgment on a claim before the losing party had been given adequate time to gather evidence was reversible error
• holding that a proposed injunction simply ordering the city not to discriminate in future annexation decisions would not satisfy the specificity requirements of Rule 65(d) and would be incapable of enforcement
• holding that injunction which prohibited municipality from discriminating on the basis of race in its annexation decisions “would do no more than instruct the City to ‘obey the law,’” and therefore was invalid
• observing that “we have recognized an implied private right of action to enforce the regulations promulgated under section 602 of Title VI”

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