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· 4/7/1997

DeKalb County School District v. Schrenko

Citations

  • 109 F.3d 680
  • 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 6429
  • 1997 WL 128680

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • noting DeKalb achieved unitary status in its transportation program in 1988
  • noting DeKalb achieved unitary status in its transportation program in 1988
  • “[A] federal court may not entertain a cause of action against a state for alleged violations of state law, even if that state claim is pendent to a federal claim which the district court could adjudicate.”
  • once 6 district achieved unitary status, role of the district court ends
  • “[I]t is obvious that this is, in reality, a suit against the State itself. The only action the defendants are required to take to comply with the district court’s injunction is to pay from the state treasury the additional funds specified by the district court.”
  • giving history of district’s desegregation litigation

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Judges: Anderson, Kravitch, Henderson

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