Motion to Require Certain Information to be Included in or Supplemented to the Report on the Magnet School Plan

    UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN 

SOUTHERN DIVISION

RONALD BRADLEY, et al., )
Plaintiffs, )

vs. )
WILLIAM G. MILLIKEN, et al., )

Defendants, )
DETROIT FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, ) 
LOCAL #231, AMERICAN FEDERATION 
OF TEACHERS, AFL-CIO, )

Defendant- 
Intervenor,

and
DENISE MAGDOWSKI, et al.,

Defendants- 
Intervenors.

)
)
)
)
)

CIVIL ACTION NO. 
35257

MOTION TO REQUIRE CERTAIN INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN 
OR SUPPLEMENTED TO THE REPORT ON THE MAGNET SCHOOL PLAN

Plaintiffs, through their undersigned attorneys, 
respectfully move the Court for an order requiring defendant 
Board to file information with or supplemental to its report 
on the Magnet School Plan which will reveal: (1) the number 
and race of students attending schools under the Magnet Plan;
(2) the school which each such student is presently attending, 
and the racial composition of each such school; (3) the school 
to which each such pupil would attend were he not transferred 
under the Magnet School Plan, and the racial composition of each 
such school.

As grounds for this motion, plaintiffs would show:
By letter dated October 25, 1971 (attached hereto as Exhibit A), 
counsel for plaintiffs requested of counsel for defendants that 
the information which is the subject of this motion be included 
in the report to the Court on the Magnet School Plan. By letter 
dated October 27, 1971 (attached hereto as Exhibit B), counsel 
for defendants refused to comply with plaintiffs request, questioning



the appropriateness of plaintiffs' request and complaining about 
"the time strictures under which we have been operating."
At the hearing in open court on October 4, 1971, the Court 
allowed defendant Board 30 days within which to file a 
report on the Magnet School Plan. The Court made it clear to 
all that this report was being required for the purpose of 
evaluating the Magnet School Plan as a plan of effective 
school desegregation which would comply in whole or in part 
with defendants' affirmative obligations to create and maintain 
a unitary school system within the City of Detroit.

It is obvious that the information plaintiffs 
request to be included in the report is necessary in order 
to evaluate the effect of the Magnet Plan on the sending schools. 
Defendants' protestations about "time strictures" are not un­
familiar; similar complaints were indulged by the courts for 
16 years until time ran out in Alexander v. Holmes County 
Board, 396 U.S. 19 (1969).

WHEREFORE, for the foregoing reasons, plaintiffs 
respectfully request that the Court enter an order requiring 
defendants to file the information set in the first paragraph 
of this Motion on the magnet school plan, or to supplement 
such information no later than 5 days after November 5, 1971.

Respectfully submitted,

(j'JLc* &Louis R. Lucas 
William E. Caldwell

RATNER, SUGARMON & LUCAS 
525 Commerce Title Building 
Memphis, Tennessee 38103

Nathanial R. Jones
General Counsel, N.A.A.C.P.
1790 Broadway 
New York, New York 10019

E. Winther McCroom 
3245 Woodburn Avenue 
Cincinnati, Ohio 45207

Jack Greenberg 
Norman J. Chachkin 

10 Columbus Circle 
New York, New York 10019

Of Counsel:
J. Harold Flannery 
Paul Dimond

Center for Law & Education 
Harvard University 
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Attorneys for Plaintiffs



CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

This is to certify that a copy of the foregoing motion 
has been served on George Bushnell, Jr., Esq., 2500 Detroit Bank 
& Trust Building, Detroit, Michigan 48226, Eugene Krasicky, Esq., 
Assistant Attorney General, Seven Story Office Building, 525 West 
Ottawa Street, Lansing, Michigan 48913, Theodore Sachs, Esq.,
100 Farmer, Detroit, Michigan 48226, and Alexander B. Ritchie, Esq 
2555 Guardian Building, Detroit, Michigan 48226, by United States 
mail, postage prepaid, this 29th day of October, 1971.

Attorney for Plaintiffs



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October 25, 1571

George E. Bushnell, Jr., Esq.
2500 Detroit Dank and Trust Building 
Detroit, Michigan 48226

RE: Bradley v. Milliken
NO.' 35-2 57

Dear Mr. Bushnell:
The deadline for filing the report and evaluation of 

the Magnet Plan is coning up soon, and as plaintiffs will 
have only ten days to respond to such report and evaluation, 
wo wish to request that certain information bo included in 
the report. Past reports on the Magnet Plan have shown 
tiie number of pupils who have chosen schools under the Magnet 
Plan and the race of the pupils involved, but the reports 
have not shown the schools from which the pupils transferred. 
We, therefore, request that the report to be filed pursuant 
to the court's last order include with regard to pupils 
selecting schools under the Magnet Plan the school from which 
each pupil transferred, as well as the race of said pupil.

Very truly yours,

Louis R. Lucas
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cc: honorable Stephen J. Roth, Judge

Theodore Sachs, Esq. jJugene KiTcisiclcyr -iJscj.
Alexander b. Ritchie, Esq.
Norman J. Chachkin, Esq.
Paul Diamond, Esq.
L. Winthrop McCroor.i, Esq.

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