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Date: 10-11-2024
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Sherice Sargent v. School District of Philadelphia, et al.
Case Number: 2:22-cv-01509
Judge: Chad F. Kenney
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia County)
Plaintiff's Attorney:
Defendant's Attorney: William K. Kennedy, Lynn Rosner Rauch, Renee N. Smith
Description:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania civil rights lawyers represented the Defendant.
Plaintiffs allege that in 2021, Defendant the School District of Philadelphia (the “School District”) adopted a “blatantly unconstitutional race-based system for admission to its criteria-based public schools.” According to Plaintiffs, the changes to the admissions process were enacted “for the illegal and unconstitutional purpose of achieving racial balancing at the city's elite [criteria-based] schools[.]” Presently before the Court is Plaintiffs' Motion for a Preliminary Injunction (ECF No. 32), asking this Court to “enjoin the [D]efendants from implementing their changes to the selection standards for the city's [criteria-based] schools.” In large part, Plaintiffs' request for a preliminary injunction hinges on their interpretation of a single sentence from a Philadelphia School District Board of Education policy document, which Plaintiffs aver is “as close to a smoking gun as can be imagined.” Plaintiffs claim that the language in this policy document, “announces a [racial] quota” system as a “first step on the road to an enforced proportional-representation regime, in which school officials will consciously and continuously stamp out deviations that arise between the racial composition of the city's criteria-based schools and the racial makeup of the city's population.”
Outcome: 10/11/2024 103 MEMORANDUM AND/OR OPINION. SIGNED BY DISTRICT JUDGE CHAD F. KENNEY ON 10/9/2024. 10/11/2024 ENTERED AND COPIES E-MAILED.(sg) (Main Document 103 replaced on 10/11/2024) (sg). (Entered: 10/11/2024)
10/11/2024 104 ORDER THAT UPON CONSIDERATION OF DEFENDANTS MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT (ECF NO. 86), ALL SUPPORTING PAPERS (ECF NOS. 86-1, 86-2) AND OTHER ATTACHED EXHIBITS; PLAINTIFFS RESPONSE (ECF NO. 94), ALL SUPPORTING PAPERS (ECF NOS. 91, 92, 93), AND ALL ATTACHED EXHIBITS; AND DEFENDANTS REPLY (ECF NO. 95), SUPPORTING PAPERS (ECF NO. 99), AND ALL ATTACHED EXHIBITS, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT THE DEFENDANTS MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT (ECF NO. 86) IS GRANTED. THE CLERK OF COURT IS HEREBY DIRECTED TO CLOSE THIS CASE.. SIGNED BY DISTRICT JUDGE CHAD F. KENNEY ON 10/11/2024. 10/11/2024 ENTERED AND COPIES E-MAILED.(sg) (Entered: 10/11/2024)
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