| Venue: | SCOTUS |
| Facts: | We're currently spending $9,412/student in this district to fix race problems, whereas neighboring districts are spending $2,854. There's a big and elaborate effort by the district court to construct a district so wonderful that great teachers and white children will be attracted to it. |
| Posture: | A ton of injunctions and decrees. |
| Issue: | Is there some point of diminishing returns here? |
| Holding: | Yes. Remanded. |
| Rule: | "Desegregative attractiveness" is beyond he scope of the district court's remedial authority. |
| Reasoning: | The recitation of the history sort of speaks for itself. The amount of money expended here is so huge that the district will never be able to operate independently. The goal is to return it to local control once the mission is accomplished, but that won't be possible, if the scope is this broa. |
| Dicta: | Thomas (concurring): Black != Inferior.
Ginsburg, dissenting: compared to more than 2 centuries of firmly entrenched official discrimination, the experience with the desegregation remedies ordered by the district court has been evanescent. |