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Cowan et al v. Bolivar County Board of Education

RESPONSE in Opposition re MOTION to Stay

25 Cited authorities

  1. Nken v. Holder

    556 U.S. 418 (2009)   Cited 3,283 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "courts must be mindful that the Government's role as the respondent in every removal proceeding does not make the public interest in each individual one negligible"

  2. Green v. County School Board

    391 U.S. 430 (1968)   Cited 930 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that school boards previously operating state-compelled dual systems were "clearly charged with the affirmative duty to take whatever steps might be necessary to convert to a unitary system"

  3. Freeman v. Pitts

    503 U.S. 467 (1992)   Cited 353 times
    Holding that the district court may relinquish desegregation control in incremental stages, and stating that: "one of the prerequisites to relinquishment of control in whole or in part is that a school district has demonstrated its commitment to a course of action that gives full respect to the equal protection guarantees of the Constitution"

  4. Brown v. Board of Education

    349 U.S. 294 (1955)   Cited 983 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding racial discrimination in public schools unconstitutional

  5. Alexander v. Board of Education

    396 U.S. 19 (1969)   Cited 277 times
    Vacating circuit court order granting additional time to desegregate

  6. Watson v. Memphis

    373 U.S. 526 (1963)   Cited 188 times
    Rejecting the city's plea for delay in desegregating public facilities when "neither the asserted fears of violence and tumult nor the asserted inability to preserve the peace was demonstrated at trial to be anything more than persona] speculations or vague disquietudes of city officials"

  7. Ruiz v. Estelle

    650 F.2d 555 (5th Cir. 1981)   Cited 210 times
    Holding that the factors for determining whether to grant a stay pending appeal "are whether the movant has made a showing of likelihood of success on the merits, whether the movant has made a showing of irreparable injury if the stay is not granted, whether the granting of the stay would substantially harm the other parties, and whether the granting of the stay would serve the public interest."

  8. Royal Ins. Co. of America v. Quinn-L Cap. Corp.

    3 F.3d 877 (5th Cir. 1993)   Cited 135 times
    Holding that the Act does apply even if the request for federal injunctive relief is filed first

  9. United States v. Jefferson County Bd. of Educ

    380 F.2d 385 (5th Cir. 1967)   Cited 243 times
    In United States v. Jefferson County Bd. of Educ., 380 F.2d 385 (5th Cir. 1967) (en banc), which is binding precedent in this circuit, see Bonner v. City of Prichard, 661 F.2d 1206, 1209 (11th Cir. 1981) (en banc), the court of appeals entered a model desegregation decree which complied with "the letter and spirit of the Civil Rights Act of 1964", Jefferson County, 380 F.2d at 390.

  10. In re Katrina Canal Breaches Consolidated Litigation

    533 F. Supp. 2d 615 (E.D. La. 2008)   Cited 73 times
    Discussing taking judicial notice of governmental websites