the class is not suspect and subj to strict scrutiny unless the ct finds there is intent to discrimiate
2. intent:
a. explict
b. facially netural but administered discriminator
c. discriminatory as applied (not disproportionate impact, but something like a poll tax)
3. Plessy: sep but equal is okay
4. Swett v. Painter: UT law school case before Brown found that it wasn’t really equal
5. Brown: sep but equal is inherently unequal
6. Brown II: desegregate with “all deliberate speed”
7. dejure discrimination: purpose to discriminate <= EP will remedy this
8. de facto discrimination: discriminatory effect only (white flight) <= EP doesn’t care about this!
9. Green:
a. desegregate every facet of school operations (student attendance, faculty, staff, transportation, extracirrics, facilities)
b. unitary status once you have shown/proven you have desegregated, you will be released from court supervision & if segregation comes back per de facto discrimination, that’s okay & we won’t touch it
c. test: has school reached unitary status? Dowell
i. has bd. of education complied in GF w/ desegregation decrees?
ii. have vestiges of past discrim been remedies to effect practicable?
iii. look at Green facets of school operations
iv. policy: there is a judicial desire to return the school to the school boards as expeditiously as possible
10. rules of school desegregation:
a. cts. will only regulate if there is de jure segregation
b. racial quotas are a starting point
c. single race schools may be okay (if de facto)
d. rezoning is okay
e. busing is not permitted if the time/distance is so great that it impairs the educational process
11. affirmative action
a. Bakke: Powell
i. race cannot be determinative; no quotas
ii. but race can be a plus factor
iii. (Brennan dissent): as long as it is to remedy effect of past discrimination
b. Hopwood 5th Circuit only!
i. Bakke not controlling b/c no majority opinion
ii. UT didn’t show any past discrim at UT law school (only in Texas)
iii. can use other factors like economic b/g, etc, but not race
c. note: title 6 applies to Baylor, but not 14th am EP
d. Adarand (gov’t contracts to GC’s with disadvantages subs); held C’al b/c remedying effects of past discrim & is narrowly tailored.
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