Opinion · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

McFARLAND v. JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 416 F.3d 513 (6th Cir. 2005)

David McFARLAND, Parent & Next Friend of Stephen & Daniel McFarland;Ronald Jeffrey Pittenger, Parent & Next Friend of Brandon Pittenger;Anthony Underwood, Custodial Parent & Next Friend of Max Aubrey,Plaintiffs, Crystal D. Meredith, Custodial Parent & Next Friend ofJoshua Ryan McDonald, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLICSCHOOLS, Defendant, Jefferson County Bd. of Education; Stephen W.

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Opinion
Court
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
2005-07-21
Topic
general

McFARLAND v. JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 416 F.3d 513 (6th Cir. 2005) David McFARLAND, Parent and Next Friend of Stephen and Daniel McFarland;Ronald Jeffrey Pittenger, Parent and Next Friend of Brandon Pittenger;Anthony Underwood, Custodial Parent and Next Friend of Max Aubrey,Plaintiffs, Crystal D. Meredith, Custodial Parent and Next Friend ofJoshua Ryan McDonald, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLICSCHOOLS, Defendant, Jefferson County Board of Education; Stephen W.Daeschner, Superintendent, Defendants-Appellees. No. 04-5897.United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.Argued: June 9, 2005.

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McFARLAND v. JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS,416 F.3d 513(6th Cir. 2005)
David McFARLAND, Parent and Next Friend of Stephen and Daniel McFarland;
Ronald Jeffrey Pittenger, Parent and Next Friend of Brandon Pittenger;
Anthony Underwood, Custodial Parent and Next Friend of Max Aubrey,
Plaintiffs, Crystal D. Meredith, Custodial Parent and Next Friend of
Joshua Ryan McDonald, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC
SCHOOLS, Defendant, Jefferson County Board of Education; Stephen W.
Daeschner, Superintendent, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 04-5897.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
Argued: June 9, 2005.
Decided and Filed: July 21, 2005.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky at Louisville. No. 02-00620 — John G. Heyburn II, Chief District Judge.
Teddy B. Gordon, Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellant.

Francis J. Mellen, Jr., Wyatt, Tarrant Combs, Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellees.

Francis J. Mellen, Jr., Byron E. Leet, Wyatt, Tarrant Combs, Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellees.

Amy D. Cubbage, Sheryl G. Snyder, Bridget H. Papalia, Frost, Brown Todd, Louisville, Kentucky, Morgan G. Ransdell, Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, Louisville, Kentucky, Chester Darling, Citizens for the Preservation of Constitutional Rights, Andover, Massachusetts, MichaelPage 514Williams, Robert J. Roughsedge, Citizens for the Preservation of Constitutional Rights, Boston, Massachusetts, Maya R. Kobersy, John W. Borkowski, Maree Sneed, Hogan Hartson, Washington, D.C., Albert H. Kauffman, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Chinh Quang Le, Naacp Legal Defense Educational Fund, New York, New York, for Amici Curiae.
Before: NORRIS and DAUGHTREY, Circuit Judges; JORDAN, District Judge.fn*
OPINION
PER CURIAM.
Plaintiff Crystal Meredith, on behalf of her son Joshua Ryan McDonald, appeals the decision of the district court to uphold the student assignment plan of the Jefferson County Public Schools, which includes racial guidelines. The district court concluded that the assignment plan met the constraints of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because the school board had a compelling interest to use the racial guidelines and applied them in a manner that was narrowly tailored to realize its goals.McFarland v. Jefferson County Public Schools,330 F.Supp.2d 834(W.D.Ky. 2004).

Because the reasoning which supports judgment for defendants has been articulated in the well-reasoned opinion of the district court, the issuance of a detailed written opinion by this court would serve no useful purpose.

The judgment of the district court is affirmed.
  1. The Honorable R. Leon Jordan, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, sitting by designation. ↩