Introduction:  Anatomy of
Carlin v. Board of Education

racially balanced, if necessary through court order.” [emphasis added]
 

June 28, 1976

Crawford v. Board of Education, 17 Cal.3d 280 (Crawford I). Transformed Jackson dictum into constitutional doctrine as to both de jure and de facto segregation in California schools.
 

March 10, 1977

Carlin

After a hearing and determination (upon the complaint by the Carlin Plaintiff-Class) that the Defendant School Board had “failed to take some reasonably feasible steps to alleviate school segregation and the harms inflicted by such (de facto) segregation,” the Court issued a Writ of Mandate commanding the Board —

1. to present a “detailed plan to further alleviate racial segregation” in 23 named schools;
2. to implement “some portion of the plan during the school year 1977-78 and to designate target dates for the operation of those portions of the plan, if any, that are to be implemented at a later date;” and
3. to “serve and file a return to this Writ on or before June 13, 1977.”
    

May 29, 1979

Carlin

Groundswell's motion to intervene is denied, but amici curiae status granted Groundswell, et al. — Dilemma (direct).
 

October 2, 1979

Carlin

Judge declines to order forced busing for forthcoming school year, but Carlin Plaintiffs then propose an order for appointment of a special master with power to make mandatory pupil assignments.
 

October 10, 1979

Carlin

Groundswell, et al., were granted permission to file brief as Amici Curiae and Interested Persons in opposition to the motion for appointment of a special master, and brief was filed (Appendix). — Dilemma (direct). (Appointment was not made.)
 

November 6, 1979

Proposition 1 amended California Constitution (Sec. 7(a), Art. 1) to apply federal decisional law to disallow judicial pupil school assignment or pupil transportation to racially balance school districts not found to have caused de jure segregation.
 

Jackson v. Pasadena City School Dist., 59 Cal.2d 876 (1963)
Pasadena, California
 

Carlin v. Board of Education, San Diego Unified School District,
San Diego Superior Court No. 303800 (1967-1998)
San Diego, California
 

Crawford v. Board of Education, 17 Cal.3d 280 (1976)
[related to Bustop — Board of Ed., etc.]
Los Angeles, California
 

— Handbook: Anatomy, pages xi - xvii —