ET AL., Defendants, Appellees. Before Torruella, Chief Judge , Boudin and Stahl, Circuit Judges . Robert J. Roughsedge , with whom Chester Darling and Michael Williams , were on brief, for appellants.
Appellants are five school-age children who live in Boston, Massachusetts.
Boston's Children First, they brought suit, claiming that the Boston elementary school assignment program denied them their preferred school assignments based on their race, in violation of federal and state law. Each plaintiff sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as compensatory or nominal damages. The district court held that because the five appellant children did not apply to change schools prior to the 1999-2000 school year, they could not be said to suffer any injury requiring injunctive relief, and therefore lacked standing to sue for such relief. Accordingly, the district court granted defendants' motion to dismiss as it related to appellants' claims for injunctive relief. Id. Appellants then appealed to this Court.