Griffin v. School Bd. of Prince Edward Cty.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that although a county has the legal power to close all of its public schools, it could not do so for the purpose of preventing children from attending desegregated schools
• holding that Rule 15(d) permitted supplements to complaint about continued efforts to avoid desegregation efforts
• directing that the district court may, if necessary require the supervisors to levy taxes in order to re-open public schools without discrimination
• holding that the district court could, “if necessary to prevent further racial discrimination, require the Supervisors to exercise the power that is theirs to levy taxes to raise funds adequate to reopen, operate and maintain without racial discrimination a public school system . .”
• directing that the district court may, if necessary require the supervisors to levy taxes in order to re-open public schools without discrimination
• stating that the “basic aim” of Rule 15(d)’s allowance of supplemental pleadings is “to make pleadings a means to achieve an orderly and fair administration of justice”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).