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- Title: Lorain Naacp V. Lorain Board Of Education
- Author : United States Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit
- Release Date : January 12, 1992
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 77 KB
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RYAN, Circuit Judge. This case is an appeal from a judgment modifying a 1984 school integration consent decree. The modification, among other things, substantially increased the financial obligations of the Ohio Department of Education, a voluntary participant in the original school desegregation plan. In a Memorandum Opinion and Judgment, entered June 21, 1991, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio eliminated an express $1 million limitation on the liability of the State of Ohio Department of Education contained in the desegregation consent decree and ordered the State to contribute an estimated $9 million to its co-defendant, the Lorain Board of Education, to assist in the voluntary desegregation of the Lorain public school system. See Lorain NAACP v. Lorain Bd. of Educ., 768 F. Supp. 1224 (N.D. Ohio 1991). We are asked to decide whether the district court acted within its discretion in increasing the State's financial obligations under the decree beyond the scope of its consent and in the absence of an adjudication or admission of wrongdoing. We think the court exceeded its authority in modifying the consent decree as it did, and we shall, therefore, reverse.