Milliken I

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Milliken I is a landmark 1974 U.S. Supreme Court decision that limited the scope of court-ordered school desegregation by restricting interdistrict busing remedies.

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instanceOf United States Supreme Court case
landmark school desegregation case
alsoKnownAs Milliken I
appealedFrom United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
areaOfLaw civil rights law
constitutional law
citation 418 U.S. 717
constitutionalProvisionInterpreted Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
decidedBy Supreme Court of the United States
decisionDate July 25, 1974
decisionType 5–4 decision
dissentBy Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.
linked to: Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Justice Thurgood Marshall
linked to: Thurgood Marshall

Justice William J. Brennan Jr.
Justice William O. Douglas
linked to: William O. Douglas
effect contributed to persistence of segregation in urban school districts
limited scope of court-ordered school desegregation
restricted use of interdistrict busing remedies
hasAlternativeName Milliken I
holding Desegregation remedies must be limited to the school districts where de jure segregation is proven
Federal courts may not impose interdistrict desegregation remedies absent a showing of an interdistrict constitutional violation
joinedMajority Justice Byron R. White
linked to: Byron R. White

Justice Harry A. Blackmun
linked to: Harry A. Blackmun

Justice Potter Stewart
linked to: Potter Stewart

Justice William H. Rehnquist
jurisdiction United States
legalIssue de jure versus de facto segregation
interdistrict busing
school desegregation
scope of equitable remedies
locationOfDispute Detroit, Michigan
linked to: Detroit
longTermImpact narrowed federal courts’ role in dismantling segregated school systems
majorityOpinionBy Chief Justice Warren E. Burger
linked to: Warren E. Burger
originatingCourt United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
pageInUnitedStatesReports 717
petitioner William G. Milliken
petitionerRole Governor of Michigan
principle federalism limits on federal court power over local school districts
relatedTo Brown v. Board of Education
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
remedyAddressed busing of students across school district lines
respondent Ronald H. Bradley
respondentRole parent of Detroit schoolchildren
subsequentRelatedCase Milliken v. Bradley (1977)
linked to: Milliken v. Bradley
topic public school segregation in Detroit, Michigan
volumeInUnitedStatesReports 418
yearDecided 1974

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Milliken v. Bradley shortName Milliken I
Milliken v. Bradley (1974) hasAlternativeName Milliken I
subject linked to: Milliken I
Milliken v. Bradley (1974) alsoKnownAs Milliken I
subject linked to: Milliken I