Correspondence from Lucas to Roumell

Correspondence
January 5, 1972

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  • Case Files, Milliken Hardbacks. Correspondence from Lucas to Roumell, 1972. fe938e86-52e9-ef11-a730-7c1e5247dfc0. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/ab727f35-57db-4c41-b79a-6240d07999fe/correspondence-from-lucas-to-roumell. Accessed October 08, 2025.

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Mr. George T. Roumell, Jr 
Riley & Roumell
7th Floor, Ford Building 
Detroit, Michigan 48226

RE: Bradley, et al., vs. Milliken
et al. Civil Action No. 35257

Dear Mr. Roumell:
Enclosed please find plaintiffs' interrogatories to be 

answered by the Detroit Board of Education. As we understand 
from our telephone conversation with you and Mr. Beer on 
Tuesday, January 3, 1972, this procedure is sufficient to 
permit Mr. Henrickson and other members of the Integration 
Task Force to flesh out "Modified Feeder Pattern: Plan C"
with specifics, to the effect that it desegregates every 
school in the system.

We hereby request additional discovery in the informal 
manner to which you have agreed by having our expert, Dr. Gordon 
Foster, meet with Mr. Henrickson and other members of the 
Integration Task Force periodically during their preparation 
of answers to the interrogatories so that Dr. Foster may be 
fully informed as to the educational merits (in his view) of 
any resulting plans. Pursuant to this informal discovery 
arrangement, we request that Dr. Foster work out the schedule 
for such meetings with Mr. Henrickson and that these meetings 
be conducted without requiring the presence of counsel for 
plaintiffs.

Plaintiffs' participation in these informal discovery 
procedures does not, of course, constitute a waiver of our 
claim for any fees and expenses incurred by Dr. Foster in the 
preparation of plaintiffs' proposed plan of school desegregation 
for Detroit. ■

Very truly yours

Louis R. Lucas



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cc: Alexander B. Ritchie, Esq.
Theodore Sachs, Esq.
Eugene Krasicky, Esq.

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