“We cannot permit federal lawsuits to be transformed into amorphous vehicles for the rectification of all alleged wrongs” — a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit (Chief Judge James Edmondson and Judges James Hill and Phyllis Kravitch), refusing to declare Alabama’s property tax system an unconstitutional cause of racial segregation in its institutions of higher education. (Tom Gordon, “Appeals court says tax system doesn’t segregate”, Birmingham News, Feb. 1; “Ruling backs state in higher-ed case”, AP/Montgomery Advertiser, Feb. 2).
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“We cannot permit federal lawsuits to be transformed into amorphous vehicles for the rectification of all alleged wrongs” — a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit (Chief Judge James Edmondson and Judges James Hill and Phyllis Kravitch), refusing to declare Alabama’s property tax system an unconstitutional cause of racial segregation in its institutions of higher […]
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