CRAWFORD V. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES | Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse

Case: Crawford v. Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles

63-822854 | California state trial court

Filed Date: 1963

Closed Date: 1982

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Case Summary

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) According to the U.S. Supreme Court's summary of this case, "In a California state court action seeking desegregation of the schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (District), the trial court, in 1970, found de jure segregation in violation of both the State and Federal Constitutions and ordered the District to prepare a desegregation plan. The California Supreme Court affirmed, but based its decision solely upon the Equal Pro…

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)

According to the U.S. Supreme Court's summary of this case, "In a California state court action seeking desegregation of the schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (District), the trial court, in 1970, found de jure segregation in violation of both the State and Federal Constitutions and ordered the District to prepare a desegregation plan. The California Supreme Court affirmed, but based its decision solely upon the Equal Protection Clause of the State Constitution, which bars de facto as well as de jure segregation. On remand, the trial court approved a desegregation plan that included substantial mandatory pupil reassignment and busing. While the trial court was considering alternative new plans in 1979, the voters of California ratified an amendment (Proposition I) to the State Constitution which provides that state courts shall not order mandatory pupil assignment or transportation unless a federal court "would be permitted under federal decisional law" to do so to remedy a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution. The trial court denied the District's request to halt all mandatory reassignment and busing, holding that Proposition I was not applicable in light of the court's 1970 finding of de jure segregation in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. The court then ordered implementation of a revised plan that again included substantial mandatory pupil reassignment and busing. The California Court of Appeal reversed, concluding that the trial court's 1970 findings of fact would not support the conclusion that the District had violated the Federal Constitution through intentional segregation. The Court of Appeal also held that Proposition I was constitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment, and barred that part of the plan requiring mandatory student reassignment and busing."

In Crawford v. Los Angeles Board of Educ., 458 U.S. 527 (1982), the U.S. Supreme Court held that Proposition I was lawful.

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Summary Authors

Christopher Felker (3/12/2013)

People

Judge(s)

Armstrong, Orville [Jack] A. (California)

Bird, Rose Elizabeth (California)

Blackmun, Harry Andrew (District of Columbia)

Burger, Warren Earl (District of Columbia)

Chantry, Kenneth N. (California)

Clark, William P. Jr. (California)

Compton, Lynn Davis (California)

Egly, Paul (California)

Fleming, Macklin G. (California)

Gitelson, Alfred (California)

Judge(s)

Armstrong, Orville [Jack] A. (California)

Bird, Rose Elizabeth (California)

Blackmun, Harry Andrew (District of Columbia)

Burger, Warren Earl (District of Columbia)

Chantry, Kenneth N. (California)

Clark, William P. Jr. (California)

Compton, Lynn Davis (California)

Egly, Paul (California)

Fleming, Macklin G. (California)

Gitelson, Alfred (California)

Kriegler, Sandy R. (California)

Marshall, Thurgood (District of Columbia)

McComb, Marshall F. (California)

Mosk, Stanley (California)

O'Connor, Sandra Day (District of Columbia)

Powell, Lewis Franklin Jr. (District of Columbia)

Rehnquist, William Hubbs (District of Columbia)

Richardson, Frank K. (California)

Roth, Lester W. (California)

Stevens, John Paul (District of Columbia)

Tobriner, Matthew Oscar (California)

Turner, Paul (California)

White, Byron Raymond (District of Columbia)

Wright, Donald Richard (California)

Attorneys(s) for Plaintiff

Beard, Paul James (California)

Bergman, Michael (California)

Berman, Bayard F. (California)

Bernhard, Herbert A. (California)

Browne, Sharon L. (California)

Gale, Mary Ellen (California)

Lloyd, Rees (California)

Martinez, John L. (California)

Medvene, Edward (California)

Miller, Halvor Thomas Jr. (California)

Munoz, Ricardo Florian (California)

Neusom, Thomas G. (California)

Okrand, Fred (California)

Pineda, Lynn Arthur (California)

Rintala, William (California)

Roberts, Virgil Patrick (California)

Rodriguez, Antonio (California)

Rosenbaum, Mark Dale (California)

Rosenthal, Sol (California)

Sheats, Samuel C. (California)

Smoot, Peter (California)

Sperber, Lawrence (California)

Tribe, Laurence (Massachusetts)

Wirin, A. L. (California)

Yi, Elizabeth Alum (California)

Attorneys(s) for Defendant

Apperson, Ronald J. (California)

Cooley, Winchester III (California)

Damus, Robert G. (District of Columbia)

De Flon, Alfred C. (California)

Farrell, Joseph B. (California)

Friedman, Michael Elliott (California)

Gill, L. (California)

Halverson, Jerry F. (California)

Hart-Nibbrig, Harold Christiaan (California)

Johnson, Michael C. (California)

Jordan, Judd Lindsay (California)

Kennedy, Harold Woodworth (California)

Kirwan, Betty-Jane (California)

Langstaff, Clarence Heald (California)

Larson, John H. (California)

Maharg, John D. (California)

Peterson, David (California)

Reynolds, David Emmett (California)

Schneider, Raymond W. (California)

Shea, G. William (California)

Other Attorney(s)

Adler, James N. (California)

Bardos, (California)

Bartman, Thomas Fred (California)

Bhargava, Anurima (District of Columbia)

Collisson, Peter (California)

Cooper, Charles Justin (District of Columbia)

Dietrich, Andrea (California)

Driver, Shanta (Michigan)

Duff, Joseph Hairston (California)

Dunlap, Thomas Paine (California)

Echeagaray, Norma (California)

Edwards, G. Kip (California)

Faer, Laura Lynne (California)

Ferraro, (California)

Fiedler, (California)

Fine, Jack D. (California)

Fisher, Raymond C. (California)

Fridkis, Cliff (California)

Garcin, Thomas E. (California)

Goldberg, Arthur L. (California)

Grosz, David Brant (California)

Harris, H Elizabeth (California)

Hoffman, Paul L. (California)

Horth-Neubert, Stacy R. (California)

Jones, Nathaniel Raphael (Ohio)

Kao, Winifred (California)

Keeny, Christy Virginia (California)

Kenneally, Gwen (California)

Kerley-Schwartz, Stephanie (California)

Lavender, Carol King (California)

Lee, Rex E. (District of Columbia)

Lhamon, Catherine (California)

Lindsey, Michael Kaj (California)

Logan, Dorothea (California)

McKinsey, Brenda Powers (California)

Michael, Barbara (California)

Mirell, Douglass E. (California)

Paul, Lee G. (California)

Peters, Aulana Louise (California)

Powers, Brenda (California)

Russell, Jason D. (California)

Saferstein, Harvey Irving (California)

Schwab, Richard Joseph (California)

Smith-Evans, Leticia (New York)

Spencer, Ruth A. (California)

Stern, Robert Steven (California)

Su, Julie A (California)

Tenner, Jack (California)

Thomas, Holly A. (New York)

Trygstad, Lawrence Benson (California)

Valenzuela, Cynthia Ann (California)

Vera, Hernan D. (California)

Washington, George B. (Michigan)

Weisman, Joseph (California)

Willick, Daniel Harold (California)

Younger, (California)

Ziegler, Mara Jean (California)

Expert/Monitor/Master

Arias, Beatriz (Arizona)

Armor, David James (California)

Brennan, William Joseph Jr. (District of Columbia)

Caughey, John Walton (California)

Cohen, David K. (California)

Crain, Robert L. (New York)

Davidson, Gordon (California)

Dodson, Daniel W. (New York)

Farley, Reynolds (Michigan)

Gardner, Arthur F. (California)

Gifford, Bernard R. (California)

Gordon, Calvin Wayne (California)

Hain, Elwood Brett Junior (California)

Hammerman, Sam (California)

Hardy, Georgiana (California)

James, Judy (California)

Kelley, Robert E (California)

McKenna, George J. III (California)

Nastasia, Rose Mary (California)

Nathanson, Julia (California)

Orfield, Gary (California)

Pettigrew, Thomas Fraser (Massachusetts)

Price, Monroe E. (California)

Purdy, Robert (California)

Rabinovitz, Francine (California)

Sullivan, Neil V. (California)

Willett, Hugh C. (California)

Yudof, Mark G. (Texas)

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Documents in the Clearinghouse

	Document
77-cv-50701	Index of Pleadings Bustop v. Superior Court for the State of California for the County of Los Angeles; Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles California state appellate court	March 22, 1977	March 22, 1977 Docket
	Supreme Court Docket Bustop adv. Crawford Supreme Court of the United States	Sept. 11, 1978	Sept. 11, 1978 Docket
81-00038 80-cv-60000 81-cv-822854	Docket Court Appeal California 2 second Appellate District Division 2 two California state appellate court	Jan. 14, 1982	Jan. 14, 1982 Docket
63-822854	Minutes, Regular Meetings 1962-1963	June 7, 1962	June 7, 1962 Discovery Material/FOIA Release
63-822854	LAUSD responses to California Fair Housing Act of 1963 Rumford Act AB 1240	July 15, 1963	July 15, 1963 Discovery Material/FOIA Release
63-822854	Complaint for Declaratory Judgment and Injunction	July 31, 1963	July 31, 1963 Complaint
63-822854	Order to Show Cause	Aug. 1, 1963	Aug. 1, 1963 Order/Opinion
63-822854	Plaintiffs' Memorandum of Points and Authorities on Order to Show Cause	Aug. 2, 1963	Aug. 2, 1963 Pleading / Motion / Brief
63-822854	LAUSD transmittal to Los Angeles County Counsel	Aug. 5, 1963	Aug. 5, 1963 Complaint
63-822854	LAUSD Board Crawford correspondence, 1963-1977	Sept. 6, 1963	Sept. 6, 1963 Other

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Resources

Title	Description		External URL Date / External URL
Crawford v. Board of Education of City of Los Angeles	Summary information about Crawford v. Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles	June 30, 1982	June 30, 1982 https://www.oyez.org/...