Parents vs Seattle School District No 1 - Text of SCt Opinions

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Click here for, inter alia, the texts of the opinions in the three U.S. Supreme Court cases referenced in the First Short Quiz --

(1) Plessy vs. Ferguson (1986), the Supreme Court’s NOTORIOUS decision APPROVING SEGREGATION with its INFAMOUS “Separate But Equal” proclamation!!!

[The decision was 7-1 with one Justice not participating. The dissent starts about half-way through the report.]

(2) Brown vs. Board of Education (1954), the Supreme Court’s UNANIMOUS 9-0 opinion that SEPARATE IS INHERENTLY UNEQUAL!!!

(3) Parents vs. Seattle School District No. 1 (2007), the Supreme Court’s NOTORIOUS decision which is aptly described in the title our focus book “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America” by Jonathan Kozol.

[Jonathan Kozol was describing conditions in America’s inner-city schools between 1990 and 2005 when his book was published. However, those conditions reflected lower-court cases that were percolating through the judicial system prior to Parents vs. Seattle School District No. 1 which was the “kiss of death” two years after publication.]

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Notes re Parents vs. Seattle School District No. 1 --

Whereas it took the Supreme Court only the equivalent of 16.5 Microsoft Word pages in Plessy vs. Ferguson TO APPROVE SEGREGATION, and only the equivalent of 7.5 Microsoft Word pages in Brown vs. Board of Education TO REVERSE THAT ABOMINATION, the Supreme Court took 185 Adobe.pdf pages in Parents vs. Seattle School District No. 1 TO JUSTIFY (at least in their minds) “THE RESTORATION OF APARTHEID SCHOOLING IN AMERICA”!!!

There were five opinions --

(1) The opinion of the Court by Chief Justice Roberts beginning at page 8 of the Adobe.pdf file posted in this Reference Materials Section. He was joined by Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas and Alito with respect to Parts I, II, III-A, III-C of his opinion for a five-Justice majority. Only Justices Scalia, Thomas and Alito joined Chief Justice Roberts with respect to Parts III-B and IV of his opinion, which were immaterial to the outcome so that Justice Kennedy’s failure to join in those parts is only dicta (i.e., not worth the paper they’re written on for purposes of precedent).

(2) A concurrence by Justice Thomas beginning at page 49 of the Adobe.pdf file posted in this Reference Materials Section.

(3) A concurrence by Justice Kennedy beginning at page 85 of the Adobe.pdf file posted in this Reference Materials Section.

(4) A dissent by Justice Stevens beginning at page 103.

(5) A dissent by Justice Breyer joined by Justices Stevens, Souter and Ginsberg beginning at page 109.
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Parents vs Seattle School District No 1 - Text of SCt Opinions

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Here is the text of the five opinions totaling 185 pages --

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(1) The opinion of the Court by Chief Justice Roberts begins at page 8. He was joined by Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas and Alito with respect to Parts I, II, III-A, III-C of his opinion for a five-Justice majority. Only Justices Scalia, Thomas and Alito joined Chief Justice Roberts with respect to Parts III-B and IV of his opinion, which were immaterial to the outcome so that Justice Kennedy’s failure to join in those parts is only dicta (i.e., not worth the paper they’re written on for purposes of precedent).

(2) A concurrence by Justice Thomas begins at page 49.

(3) A concurrence by Justice Kennedy begins at page 85.

(4) A dissent by Justice Stevens begins at page 103.

(4) A dissent by Justice Stevens begins at page 103.
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