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Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District
No. 05-908 Title:

Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, et al.

Subject:

Equal Protection, Public Schools, Racial Diversity

Questions:

1. How are the Equal Protection rights of public high school students affected by the jurisprudence of Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), and Gratz v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 244 (2003)?
   
   
2. Is racial diversity a compelling interest that can justify the use of race in selecting students for admission to public high schools?
   
   
3. May a school district that is not racially segregated and that normally permits a student to attend any high school of her choosing deny a child admission to her chosen school solely because of her race in an effort to achieve a desired racial balance in particular schools, or does such racial balancing violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?

Decisions:

• U.S. Court of Appeals - 9th Circuit Opinion Filed: October 20, 2005
• United States Supreme Court, Cert. Granted: June 5, 2006

Resources:

• Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Northwestern University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket

Briefs:

    Parties

Merits Phase

• Petitioner's Brief
• Respondents' Brief
  
  
  Amici Supporting Petitioner
  
  
• Coming Soon
  
  Amici Supporting Respondents
  
• Amici Brief of the Nat'l Sch. Bds. Ass'n, et al.
• Amici Brief of Hon. Clifford Alexander, et al.
• Amicus Brief of Anti-Defamation League
• Amici Brief of the Am. Psychological Ass'n, et al.
• Amici Brief of Former Chancellors
• Amici Brief of Historians
• Amicus Brief of the Civil Rights Clinic at Howard Univ.
• Amici Brief of the Leadership Conf. on Civil Rights, et al.
• Amici Brief of Media & Telecom. Cos.
• Amicus Brief of the NAACP
• Amici Brief of Nat'l Educ. Ass'n, et al.
• Amici Brief of the Nat'l Women's Law Ctr., et al.
• Amici Brief of Former U.S. Secretaries of Educ., et al.
• Amici Brief of Professors, et al.

Counsel of Record

For Petitioner Parents Involved
    in Community Schools:

Harry J.F. Korrell
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Seattle, WA

For Respondents Seattle School
    District No. 1, et al.:

Michael F. Madden
Bennett, Bigelow & Leedom, P. S.
Seattle, WA

 

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