NAACP, Detroit Branch v. Detroit Police Officers Ass'n

NAACP, Detroit Branch v. Detroit Police Officers Assn.

NAACP v. Detroit Police Officers Ass'n, 499 U.S. 913 (1991)

Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Decided: March 4, 1991
Docket: No. 90-1104
Citations: 499 U.S. 913111 S. Ct. 1122113 L. Ed. 2d 23059 U.S.L.W. 359955 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1441991 U.S. LEXIS 1363

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C. A. 6th Cir. Motion of Society of American Law Teachers et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae granted. Certiorari denied.

How later courts describe this case

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(issue is whether school district’s IEP struck an adequate and appropriate balance, not whether better or worse program existed)

Petersen ex rel. Petersen ex rel. Janssen v. Hastings Pub. Schs., 831 F. Supp. 742 (D. Neb. 1993)
(“actual educational results are relevant to determining the efficacy of educators’ policy choices.”)

Warton v. New Fairfield Bd. of Educ., 217 F. Supp. 2d 261 (D. Conn. 2002)

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Ivan P. ex rel. Lukas P. v. Westport Board of Education865 F. Supp. 74 (D. Conn. 1994)
Correa v. Hospital San Francisco69 F.3d 1184 (1st Cir. 1995)
George C. Jones, Jr., and Peggy Linn Jones v. Lee Thompson996 F.2d 261 (10th Cir. 1993)

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