PALMER

v.

BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (32 total)

• Rufo v. Inmates of Suffolk Cnty. Jail, 502 U.S. 367 (U.S. 1992)
  …ain in place for extended periods of time, the likelihood of significant changes occurring during the life of the decree is increased. See, e. g., Philadelphia Welfare Rights Organization v. Shapp, 602 F. 2d 1114, 1119-1121 (CA3 1979), cert. denied, 444 U. S. 1026 (1980), in which modification of a consent decree was allowed in light of [*381] changes in circumstances that were beyond the defendants’ control and were not contemplated by the court or the parties when the decree was entered. The experience of…

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• Sumner v. Shuman, 483 U.S. 66 (U.S. 1987)
  …8. Thigpen v. State, 355 So. 2d 392 (Ala, Crim. App.), aff’d, 355 So. 2d 400 (Ala. 1977), denial of petition for writ of coram nobis aff’d, 372 So. 2d 385 (Ala. Crim. App.), review denied, Ex parte Thigpen, 372 So. 2d 387 (Ala. 1979), cert. denied, 444 U. S. 1026 (1980), presents the situation where a life-term inmate is convicted of a murder outside the prison environment. Thigpen was convicted of first-degree murder for the killing of a farmer, committed during an escape attempt in which he participated, b…
• NEW York State Ass'n FOR Retarded Child., Inc. v. Carey, 706 F.2d 956 (2d Cir. 1983)
  …d.] Fiss, The Supreme Court — 1978 Term— Foreword: The Forms of Justice, 93 Harv. L.Rev. 1, 49 (1979). This view has found judicial expression in Philadelphia Welfare Rights Organization v. Shapp, 602 F. 2d 1114, 1120-21 (3 Cir.1979), cert. denied, 444 U.S. 1026, 100 S.Ct. 689, 62 L.Ed.2d 660 (1980). Faced with “a complex ongoing remedial [consent] decree”, the Third Circuit upheld a modification sought by the defendants, saying: Where an affirmative obligation is imposed by court order on the assumption t…