Pasadena City Board of Education v. Spangler

Pasadena City Board of Education v. Spangler
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 27–28, 1976 Decided June 28, 1976
Full case name	Pasadena City Board of Education, et al. v. Spangler, et al.
Citations	427 U.S. 424 ( more ) 96 S. Ct. 2697; 49 L. Ed. 2d 599; 1976 U.S. LEXIS 77
Holding
The District Court exceeded the limits of its power and authority in refusing to modify a desegregation order.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr.  · Potter Stewart Byron White  · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun  · Lewis F. Powell Jr. William Rehnquist  · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
Majority	Rehnquist, joined by Burger, Stewart, White, Blackmun, Powell
Dissent	Marshall, joined by Brennan
Stevens took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

Pasadena City Board of Education v. Spangler, 427 U.S. 424 (1976), was a United States Supreme Court case.

Parties and litigants

Phil C. Neal argued the cause for petitioners; with him on the briefs were Lee G. Paul, Peter D. Collisson, Robert G. Lane, Philip B. Kurland, and Alan L. Unikel.

Fred Okrand argued the cause and filed a brief for respondents Spangler et al. Solicitor General Bork argued the cause for the United States. With him on the brief were Assistant Attorney General Pottinger, Deputy Solicitor General Wallace, and Brian K. Landsberg. ^[1]

Raymond B. Witt, Jr., filed a brief for the Board of Education of Chattanooga, Tenn., as amicus curiae. [427 U.S. 424, 427]

References

1. Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed by Vilma Socorro Martínez and Morris J. Baller for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund; by Nathaniel R. Jones, William L. Taylor, Paul R. Dimond, William E. Caldwell, Norman J. Chachkin, Thomas D. Barr, John W. Douglas, J. Harold Flannery, Albert E. Jenner, Jr., Milan C. Miskovsky, Whitney North Seymour, and Chesterfield Smith for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People et al.; by Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit III, Charles Stephen Ralston, Drew S. Days III, and Melvin Leventhal for the N. A. A. C. P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.; by Ralph J. Moore, Jr., Richard M. Sharp, David Rubin, Peter T. Galiano, and Horace Wheatley for the National Education Assn. et al.; and by Nathaniel S. Colley for the Western Regional Office, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al.

External links

• Text of Pasadena City Board of Education v. Spangler, 427 U.S. 424(1976) is available from: Justia Library of Congress Oyez (oral argument audio)