Draft Motion to Join and Substitute Parties

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    UNITED STATED DISTRICT COURT 
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN 

SOUTHERN DIVISION

)RONALD BRADLEY, et alM  )
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Plaintiffs, ))
v.  )

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WILLIAM G. MILLIKEN, )

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Defendants, )

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and )

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DENISE MAGDOWSKI, )

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Defendants- )
Intervenors )

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and )

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ALLEN PARK, et al., )

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Defendants- )
Intervenors, )

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and )

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KERRY GREEN, et al., )

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Defendants- )
Intervenors, ))

and ' ^

WAYNE COUNTY INTERMEDIATE )
SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., )

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Added Defendants. )

______________________________________ ___ ________________________)

MOTION TO JOIN AND SUBSTITUTE PARTIES

NOV/ COME Plaintiffs, Ronald Bradley, et al., and move 
this Honorable Court to join the following school districts, 
the boards of and members of the boards of education of such 
school districts, and their superintendents as parties in 

this cause in the first instance for hearings on metropolitan 
relief and as necessary to further planning and thereafter, 
insofar as necessary, in implementing an effective plan for 

desegregation of the Detroit Public Schools:
(a) the Wayne County Intermediate School District, 
the Oakland County Intermediate School District, 
Lakeview Public Schools, Fitzgerald Public Schools, 
Fraser Public Schools, Harper Woods School District, 

Van Dyke Public Schools, Hamtramck School District,



School District of the City of Troy, Highland Park City 

School District, School District of the City of Birmingham, 

Bloomfield Hills School District, Farmington Public 
School District, Clarenceville School District, West 

Bloomfield School District, Livonia Public School 

District, South Redford School District, Romulus 

Township School District, Inkster School District,

Westwood Community School District, Ecorse Public 
School District, Southgate Community School District, 

Riverview Community School District, School District 

of the City of Pontiac, Holly Area Schools, Huron 

Valley Schools, Lake Orion Community School District, 
Rochester Community School, Walled Lake Consolidated 

School District, Avondale School District, Clarkston 
Community Schools, South Lyon Community Schools, Waterford 
School District, Mt. Clemens Community School District, 

Anchor Bay School District, Romeo Community Schools, 
Clintondale Community Schools, L ’anse Creuse Public 
Schools, South Lake Schools, Utica Community Schools,
Armada Area Schools, New Haven Community Schools,.

Plymouth Community School District, Huron School 

District, Northville Public School District, Van 
Buren Public School District, Grosse lie Township 
School District, Trenton Public School District;
(b) all other school districts, if any, in the tri-

nd- a l t W ^  \aav\T
county areaj; (c) the Boards of Education and Members 
of the Boards of Education in each school district in 
the tri-county area; (d) the Superintendents of each school 

district in the tri-county area.
Plaintiffs further move this Honorable Court to substitute 

the following as parties defendant in this cause:
1. Charles Wolfe for Norman Drackler as Superintendent 

of the Detroit Public Schools.
2. The present members of the Detroit Board of 

Education for their predecessors.



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Respectfully submitted,

LOUIS R. LUCAS 
WILLIAM E. CALDWELL

Ratner, Sugermon & Lucas 
525 Commerce Title Bldg. 
Memphis, Tennessee 38103 
901- 525-8601

NATHANIEL JONES 
General Counsel 
N.A.A.C.P.
1790 Broadway
New York, New York 10019

PAUL R. DIMOND 
906 Rose Avenue 
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 
313-769-8899 

J. HAROLD FLANNERY 
ROBERT PRESSMAN

Center for Law & Education 
6l Kirkland St.
Cambridge, Mass. 02138

JACK GREENBERG 
NORMAN J. CHACHKIN 

10 Columbus Circle 
New York, New York 10019

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