New Filings in the K-12 School Diversity Cases

[Last briefs added: 10/11, 1:20 PM. New additions in bold.]

Tom is counsel of record in the attached amicus brief on behalf of the National School Boards Association et al.; the brief supports the respondents in the cases Parents Involved v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County, which address the issue of using race as a factor in K-12 school assignments.

The principal authors were Mike Small of Akin Gump and Rae Woods, Erik Zimmerman, and Dave Jang of the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.

Thanks to Mike Madden of Bennett Bigelow & Leedom, the merits brief for the Respondents in the Seattle case, which was filed today, can be downloaded here. The Petitioner’s brief in this case, filed earlier, can now be found here. (Thanks to Rick Nagel.)

Thanks are once again owed to Rick Nagel, a former Seattle teacher with a keen interest in these cases, for pointing out that the Petitioner’s brief in Meredith v. Jefferson County is available here via the ABA’s Supreme Court Preview site. The respondent’s brief is now available here.

Goodwin Liu of the University of California filed this brief on behalf of 19 former Chancellors of that University.

Jonathan S. Franklin of Fulbright & Jaworski filed this amicus brief on behalf of several former high-ranking leaders of the Department of Defense.

Walter Dellinger of O’Melveny and Myers is counsel of record on this brief on behalf of the National Women’s Law Center et al. (Thanks to Nicole Saharsky, also on the brief, for sending.)

The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights filed a brief that can be found here.

Other Amici: ADL, APA, Former Sec. of Ed., Historians, Howard Civil Rights Clinic, NAACP LDF, NEA, Sociologists, Media and Telecom Companies.