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Fields, Cheryl M. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
Judge John H. Pratt held that under a 1984 Supreme Court ruling, the civil-rights organizations that had pursued the "Adams case" no longer had the legal standing to continue it. He found it was "speculative" whether the cutoff of federal funds would lead discriminatory states to change their actions. (MLW)
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, College Desegregation, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation
