Opinion ID: 594417
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Student Transportation Policy

Text: 19 In the district court proceedings, the NAACP submitted a letter dated May 17, 1991, from its counsel to the Board's counsel alleging that a Linda Jones of the Board's recruiting office told a meeting of black clergy that although white children would be given free transportation to attend secondary schools outside their district, black children would not be given the same free service to secondary schools. The letter asked the Board for clarification on the Board's school transportation policy. The NAACP alleged that the Board failed to respond to its letter, and asked the district court to require the Board to clarify its transportation policy. 20 The district court held that even if the hearsay statement was credited, there would be insufficient evidence to call the Board's official transportation policy into question. The district court did not err in this regard. The NAACP presented no evidence showing the actual or apparent authority of Linda Jones to speak for the Board regarding its official transportation policy. See Restatement (Second) of Agency § 27 (1958). Moreover, the record contains a letter dated June 3, 1991, from the Board to the NAACP clarifying the Board's transportation policy. According to the letter, all students attending magnet schools or other schools identified in the attachments to the CSA would be provided with transportation. Therefore, the NAACP has already received the relief it is requesting. 21