Court Opinion

ID: 9449911
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 16:27:35.955625+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:02.980369
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HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge (specially concurring).
In view of the statement in the Chief Judge’s dissent, that the majority opinion, while keeping the promise to the ear, has broken it to the hope, I must respectfully say that I do not believe that such a view is warranted by anything that was decided or said in the majority opinion. I should like to say further that nothing in the facts or decision in this case has any relation to the case of Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1, 7, 78 S.Ct. 1401, 3 L.Ed.2d 19, cited by the Chief Judge in his dissent. That case dealt with an open, deliberate, and violent effort to interfere with desegregation. Nothing of that kind appears in this case. Indeed, the record clearly refutes the suggestion that either the School Board or the District Court was animated by opposition as such to desegregation. On the contrary, the district judge retained jurisdiction of the case for further orders at the foot of the decree, and, if addressed, can axxd no doubt will modify the fault in the decree, of which the dissexxting judge makes so much, that without such modification some of the plaintiffs may never enjoy admission un*817der the proposed plan. If there were anything in the decree or the proceedings to indicate either that the school board or the district judge was animated by a feeling of opposition as such to desegregation and a determination to continue segregation indefinitely, the majority would have been as quick to sense this and to reverse the decree accordingly as the dissenting judge is.