Court Opinion

ID: 9458129
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 20:43:50.558707+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:35:38.969316
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ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge
(concurring specially):
I agree that the findings of the District Court warranted its conclusion that the New Hanover County School System was not an integrated system. Nor do I disagree with the remedies decreed, but I do make this reservation: if any of the existing or proposed busing is for the purpose of maintaining a racial balance in the public schools, then to the approval by the majority opinion of that busing, I must dissent.
It is my understanding that no such transportation has ever been declared by the Supreme Court as required of the States by the Constitution. Swann v. *687Charlotte-Mecklenburg Bd. of Educ., 402 U.S. 1, 24, 91 S.Ct. 1267, 28 L.Ed.2d 554 (1971). I recognize that busing may be required where necessary to establish integration in the public schools. However, this is far different from busing solely to assure racial balances in the integrated schools. I have consistently so stressed. Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Bd. of Educ., 431 F.2d 138, 155 (4 Cir. 1970), aff’d 402 U.S. 1, 91 S.Ct. 1267, 28 L.Ed.2d 554 (1971), supra.