Allen v. Alabama State Board of Education’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2000
10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 1703 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Bullock v. United States · Bonanno v. United States · Cotton v. Hinton · Fairfax Countywide Citizens Ass'n v. County of Fairfax · United States v. City of Alexandria
Most-quoted passages
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“Beginning in June 1984, attorneys for the parties met several times to discuss settlement of this lawsuit. Also present at some of these meetings were some of the parties’ experts and some of the defendants themselves, including the state superintendent and a member of the state school board. In December 1984, the lawyers for the parties concluded that they were unable to reach a settlement and so notified the court. The court then set a trial date of April 22, 1985. In early 1985, settlement discussions resumed. During these renewed negotiations, Donald Watkins, the attorney for the plaintiffs, Gregory Stein, the attorney for the plaintiff-intervenors, and Charles Coody, the attorney for the defendants, exchanged eight to ten proposed settlement agreements in the form of consent decrees. Finally, on April 3, after working late into the night the previous day, Coody and Watkins drafted a consent decree that they believed would be acceptable to all parties. The state board had previously passed a resolution authorizing the state superintendent to settle all litigation involving the board, with one exception not applicable to the circumstances here. Although superintendent Teague believed the final draft reached by Coody and Watkins was acceptable, he considered the settlement too important to accept without the approval of the board. Teague and Coody therefore called a meeting of the board to discuss the proposed consent decree and to secure approval from the board. Five of th”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“I think all expressed opposition to the settlement, but all agreed that under the circumstances the settlement was — the Consent Decree as it was written, recommended by Dr. Teague and as explained by Mr. Coody would be — I don’t know what the word — we would do it. We would do — we would consent to this decree. In other words, I think there was opposition, but I think it was — the opposition was to various points in it. But overall, if this is the best we can do, then we will consent to it. And then we settled that idea. That’s when I spoke up and said let the Judge take credit, and then we decided that we would all be parties to it and we would accept it as it was written.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“all black persons who have been or will be denied any level teacher certification because they failed to pass the tests administered under the program”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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