Case: Alvarez v. Owen

This case is known as "the Lemon Grove case" in reference to its town of

origin. The Lemon Grove decision held that, under California law, Latino and white

children could not be segregated from one another in public schools and thus ordered

the school district to educate the children together. Specifically, the court held that under state law, Latinos and Anglos were both racially white and thus some white students could not be segregated from other white students. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2675199

See Kristi L. Bowman, The New Face of School Desegregation, 50 DUKE L.J. 1751, 1770-1771 (2001).

(decision available as the Appendix in Bowman, The New Face, supra note 12);

Kristi L. Bowman, Pursuing Equity at the Intersection of School Desegregation, English-Language Instruction, and Immigration, 31 in BOWMAN, THE PURSUIT, supra note 4. KRISTI L. BOWMAN, ED., THE PURSUIT OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC EQUALITY IN AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS (MSU Press 2015);