Letter from Dimond to Chackin RE Redraft Changes
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October 11, 1973

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Case Files, Milliken Hardbacks. Letter from Dimond to Chackin RE Redraft Changes, 1973. 9e04aaf5-53e9-ef11-a730-7c1e5247dfc0. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/8a7c2002-dd50-4f08-9e8c-86018e760ac6/letter-from-dimond-to-chackin-re-redraft-changes. Accessed October 09, 2025.
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O'BRIEN, MORAN & DIMOND ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW 210 EAST HURON STREET ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN 48108 (313) 769-6838 THOMAS C. O'BRIEN MICHAEL C. MORAN PAUL R. DIMOND October 11, 1973 Mr. Norman J. Chachkin l'0~^€oXumbus Circle New York, N . Y .. 10019 Dear Norman, Please find enclosed my redraft of your redraft. These changes are made, pursuant to our conversation in light of a draft which places the "argument" on "racial balance" and analysis of Bfftmson in the argument section on reasons for denying certiorari. Similarly, the section on "the practicalities of the local situation" will be moved to argument. Thus the brief will move from the point of this redraft directly to (1) a section stating what has happened on remedy (i.e., no plan) and (2) the status of suburban districts and the remand. In the argument, 1 suggest inclusion of a brief statement in the first section (on how the case is not in a posture for review) of how the racial balance issue is not ripe because no plan has been approved. In the second section of argument we should then include several paragraphs arguing (1) racial balance and Bcrunson issues and (2) the practicalities of the local situation to show how the Petitioners' questions of adequacy of Detroit only and impropriety of metro simply are not raised by the record. (See p. 33 for a very brief statement of this theory to be expanded by argument). The concluding section then remains an argument on how the only possible question presented (as reframed by you) is not worthy of certiorari. (pp. 34-40 of original draft). All the above and enclosed are suggestions. Paul R. Dimond mjh e n d .