Sentences with phrase «black plaintiffs in the case»

Charging that the Justice Department, which filed the suit in January 1981, will not adequately represent the black plaintiffs in the case, the civil - rights group filed its request late last month.

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This, the attorney general's office contended, showed that the federal government was evenhanded — and, moreover, because the defendants were black and the plaintiffs white, here was a case it could win in the South.

Nevertheless, the judge said, the district and the minority plaintiffs in the long - running desegregation case had failed to show that the state took any actions to keep black and white children separate in the Yonkers schools.

In the same way that the old segregationist laws of the South forced blacks to the «back of the bus,» the California law amounts to «relegating minorities to the back of the courthouse under the subtle laws of the «New North,»» argued Laurence H. Tribe, a Harvard University constitutional scholar representing the minority - group plaintiffs in the Los Angeles school - desegregation casIn the same way that the old segregationist laws of the South forced blacks to the «back of the bus,» the California law amounts to «relegating minorities to the back of the courthouse under the subtle laws of the «New North,»» argued Laurence H. Tribe, a Harvard University constitutional scholar representing the minority - group plaintiffs in the Los Angeles school - desegregation casin the Los Angeles school - desegregation case.