George and Carolyn Higgins v. Board of Education of the City of Grand Rapids

How courts have described this case

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

• revocation of desegregation plan “in light of the prior cumulative constitutional violation by the school authorities, is further evidence of the Board’s racially segregative purpose”
• segregative attendance zone policy, school construction and siting policy, staff assignment policy, conscious neglect of opportunities to decrease segregation, lack of minority staff
• \the law imposes no affirmative duty upon school officials to correct the effects of segregation resulting from factors over which they have no control\
• “the law imposes no affirmative duty upon school officials to correct the effects of segregation resulting from factors over which they have no control”
• there is an apparent conflict between Higgins and Oliver, both Sixth Circuit cases
• \While it is true that a court may infer such an intent [purposeful segregation] from the circumstances there is no authority for the proposition that such an intent must be inferred in all cases where segregated patterns exist in fact\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).