Supreme Court of the United States, 1962

Goss v. Board of Education

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided October 8, 1962

371 U.S. 811; 83 S. Ct. 38; 9 L. Ed. 2d 53; 1962 U.S. LEXIS 557 (United States Reports)

Counsel

Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit III, Carl A. Cowan and Z. Alexander Looby for petitioners., S. Frank Fowler and K. Harlan Dodson, Jr. for respondents.

Cases that cite this one

13 later published cases cite this decision. The 12 that cite it most often are listed here.

Giddings & Lewis, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board (7th Cir. 1982)
Green v. Pope & Talbott, Inc. (District Court, D. Maryland 1971)
Goss v. Board of Education (District Court, E.D. Tennessee 1970)
Tarabocchia v. Zim Israel Navigation Co. (District Court, S.D. New York 1969)
United States of America and Ralph L. Guyette, Special Agent, Internal Revenue Service v. John B. Harrington (2d Cir. 1968)
United States v. Thomas G. McDonald (2d Cir. 1963)
Royal G. Bouschor v. United States (8th Cir. 1963)
No. 28193 (2d Cir. 1963)
D. I. Operating Company v. United States (9th Cir. 1963)
Thompson v. Calmar Steamship Corporation (District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania 1963)
In re the Grand Jury Investigation of Violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1621 (2d Cir. 1963)
Hagans v. Ellerman & Bucknall Steamship Co. (3d Cir. 1963)

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Opinion of the Court

The petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is granted limited to Question 1 presented by the petition, which reads as follows:

“Whether petitioners, Negro school children seeking desegregation of the public school systems of Knoxville, Tennessee (Goss case), and Davidson County, Tennessee (Maxwell case), are deprived of rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by judicial approval of a provision in desegregation plans adopted by their local school boards, which expressly recognizes race as a ground for transfer between schools in circumstances where such transfers operate to preserve the pre-existing racially segregated system, and which operate to restrict Negroes living in the zones of all-Negro schools to such schools while permitting white children in such areas to transfer to other schools solely on the basis of race.”

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