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Gooden, Mark A.; Green, Terrance L. – Teachers College Record, 2016
The Honorable Judge Nathaniel Jones litigated the "Milliken v. Bradley I" case before the U.S. District Court and Supreme Court in 1971 and 1974. Nathaniel Jones was born May 12, 1926 in Youngstown, Ohio, and served as the general counsel for the NAACP from 1969-1979. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter nominated Nathaniel Jones to the U.S.…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Desegregation Litigation, School Desegregation
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Smith, Brad; Zalman, Marvin; Kiger, Angie – Crime & Delinquency, 2011
The wrongful conviction of factually innocent people is a growing concern within the United States. Reforms generated by this concern are predicated in part on the views of justice system participants. The authors surveyed judges, police officials, prosecutors, and defense lawyers in Michigan regarding their views of why wrongful convictions…
Descriptors: Justice, Lawyers, Law Enforcement, Surveys
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Wood, Thomas E. – Academic Questions, 2003
Elite universities will be returning to court to clarify the murky ruling in "Grutter v. Bollinger". Thomas E. Wood predicts that judges will again have to pass judgment on the constitutionality of dubious scheming by elite universities to achieve their critical mass of black students legitimately--without resort to tacit quotas and…
Descriptors: Judges, Race, Court Litigation, Selective Admission
Brookover, Wilbur B.; And Others – 1981
This report on school desegregation consists of two parts. Part one is made up of two case studies designed to explore the manner in which Federal and State compensatory education policies affect educational equity at the local level in two Michigan districts that have been desegregated for several years. The degree of educational equity in the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Compensatory Education, Conferences, Desegregation Effects