Supplement to Petition for Writ of Mandamus with Cover Letter
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July 12, 1972
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Case Files, Milliken Hardbacks. Supplement to Petition for Writ of Mandamus with Cover Letter, 1972. 971dc656-53e9-ef11-a730-7c1e5247dfc0. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/28b201b8-f3ed-4414-acc8-05796882abd1/supplement-to-petition-for-writ-of-mandamus-with-cover-letter. Accessed November 28, 2025.
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James A. Higgins, Clerk
United States Court of Appeals
for the Sixth Circuit
609 Post Office Building
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
Re: No. 72-1651, Bloomfield Hills School
District, Petitioner, v. Honorable
Stephen J. Roth, United States District
Judge, Eastern District of Michigan,
Respondent
Dear Mr. Higgins:
Enclosed herewith please find the original
and six copies of a letter supplementing the Petition
filed by the Bloomfield Hills School District in the
above matter on June 29, 1972.
Please file the original letter and distribute
the copies to the panel assigned to consider this matter.
We are also enclosing for filing the Proof
of Mailing.
Very truly yours,
. ' 'UtcO/ r: * ( t _ -Y
Charles F. Clippert
CFC/dp
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The Honorable Judges of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
609 Post Office Building
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
Re: No. 72-1651, Bloomfield Hills School District,
Petitioner, v. Honorable Stephen J. Roth,
United States District Judge, Eastern District
of Michigan, Respondent
Dear Sirs:
On June 29, 1972, the Petition for Writ of Mandamus
and/or Prohibition of Bloomfield Hills School District v/as
docketed by the Clerk of your Court. The Petition relates to
the June 14, 1972 Ruling and Order of the Honorable Stephen J.
Roth, Respondent to such Petition, in the so-called Detroit
school desegregation case (Bradley, et al. v. Milliken, et al.,
Civil Action No. 35257, United States District Court for the
Eastern District of Michigan). In compliance with Rule 21,
Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, a copy of such June 14,
1972 Ruling and Order is attached to the Petition.
Thereafter, on July 10, 1972, Judge Roth entered an
oral Order directing the Detroit School District to purchase
295 buses for the purpose of implementing his June 14, 1972
Ruling and Order. The State defendants in Bradley v. Milliken,
namely, the Governor and Attorney General of Michigan, the State
Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Public In
struction, were ordered to pay for such buses. To implement
such payment, the Treasurer of Michigan was added as an addi
tional State defendant.
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The Honorable Judges of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
July 12, 1972
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The bus purchase order further evidences Judge Roth's
intention to put his June 14, 1972 metropolitan desegregation
busing order into effect as of the opening of school the first
week in September, less than 60 days from now.
During the course of the hearing preceding the entry
of Judge Roth's bus purchase order, he candidly stated as
follows:
"To my knowledge the propriety of going
to a metropolitan plan has not been decided
by the United States Supreme Court except in
the language used in Brown in 1954, where
they in broad outline said you can do anything
in order to achieve the job including dealing
with school districts. They said that in '54.
That is what I am relying on and they never
said otherwise but they never have had a
school case such as this where an order for
metropolitan desegregation is the issue."
The entry of the bus purchase order underscores the
urgency of immediate consideration by this Court of Bloomfield
Hills School District's Petition. Accordingly, we respectfully
request this Court to take such Petition under immediate advise
ment, to enter an order directing Judge Roth to answer such Pe
tition immediately, and to set a date for hearing on the Petition
as soon as possible thereafter. In this connection, we reiterate
the prayer contained in the Petition that, in the interim, a stay
of the proceedings contemplated by Judge Roth's June 14, 1972
Ruling and Order be entered.
Respectfully submitted,
DICKINSON, WRIGHT, McKEAN & CUDLIP
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Fred W. Freeman
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The Honorable Judges of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
July 12, 1972
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Robert V. Peterson
Attorneys for Petitioner
Bloomfield Hills School District
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