Watson v. City of Memphis

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the concept of “deliberate speed” countenanced indefinite delay in elimination of racial barriers in schools
• noting that “it is obvious that vindication of conceded constitutional rights 2 cannot be made dependent up on any theory that it is less expensive to deny than to afford them”
• rejecting appeal by city to permit delay in desegregation based on alleged “need and wisdom of proceeding slowly and gradually”
• rejecting the City’s request for further delay in meeting its constitutional obligation under the Fourteenth Amendment to desegregate its public parks and other municipal recreational facilities
• concerning the segregation of “municipal parks and other city owned or op- erated recreational facilities”
• rejecting argument that city couldn’t desegregate parks because of budgetary concerns

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).