Jefferson County Board of Education, et al.
Respondents
Francis J. Mellen, Jr., Counsel of Record In 1975, a Federal judge ruled that the public schools of Louisville, Kentucky, were unconstitutionally segregated and that they must achieve racial balance by busing students to different schools. Ever since then, the school district, operated by the Jefferson County Board of Education, has had some version of a racial-balancing plan. In 2000, the district court dissolved the mandatory order, ruling that the school district had successfully desegregated. The Jefferson County Board of Education chose to continue its student assignment plan, however, to prevent resegregation. In 2002, Crystal Meredith and three other parents…
