San Francisco NAACP v. San Francisco Unified School District

OPINION AND ORDER

This school desegregation case, brought by the San Francisco Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (“NAACP”), a civil rights organization representing its members, and individual black parents proceeding on behalf of their own children, charges that the defendants, the San Francisco Unified School District, its Board Members, and its Superintendent (hereinafter collectively called “the District”), and the California State Board of Education and its members, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the State Department of Education (hereinafter collectively called “the State”), engage in discriminatory practices and maintain a segregated school system in the City and County of San Francisco in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States and of the State of California. Plaintiffs also bring this action pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(2) on behalf of all children of school age who are or may in the future become eligible to attend the public schools of the District and also who are entitled to do so under circumstances that afford them full and equal protection of the law. The case is…