[495 19 (W.D.Mo. Although it allocated the costs of the remedy between the governmental entities, the court determined that several state law provisions would prevent KCMSD from being able to pay its share. A party may petition for rehearing before the panel under Rule 40, file a suggestion for a rehearing in banc under Rule 35, or do both, separately or together. The Court of Appeals appears to have interpreted and actually treated the State's papers as including a petition for rehearing before the panel. ] KCMSD was ordered to improve the quality of the curriculum and library, reduce teaching load, and implement tutoring, summer school, and child development programs. Brief for Petitioner at 15-16. Ibid. (1973) (quoting Jefferson v. Hackney, Turning to the property tax increase, the Court of Appeals rejected the State's argument that a federal court lacks the judicial power to order a tax increase. (1961), in which we reversed a judgment directing a District Court to decree a valid tax in place of an invalid one that the State had attempted to enforce: The power to exact a higher rate of property tax remains with the people, a majority of whom must agree to empower the KCMSD to increase the levy up to $3.75 per $100, and two-thirds of whom must agree for the levy to go higher. But, as we see it, that is not what happened in this case: the Eighth Circuit originally entered an order denying the "petitions for rehearing en banc" because the papers filed with the court were styled as "petitions for rehearing en banc." Gaines v. Canada 305 U.S. 337 (1938), Missouri Baptist University: Tabular Data, Missouri Valley College: Narrative Description, Missouri Western State College: Narrative Description, Missouri Western State College: Tabular Data, mistakes you don't make anything, if you don't make, https://www.encyclopedia.com/politics/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/missouri-v-jenkins-495-us-33-1990, Milliken v. Bradley 418 U.S. 717 (1974) 433 U.S. 267 (1977), San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez 411 U.S. 1 (1973). Proc. The State's filing on its face did not exactly comport with any of these options. ] We note that the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure and 28 U.S.C. [495 The District Court certified a plaintiff class of present and future KCMSD students. Ill-considered entry into the volatile field of taxation is a step that may place at risk the legitimacy that justifies judicial independence. . The Missing Half of Missouri v. Jenkins: Determining the Scope of a You can opt out at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in our newsletter, If you have not signed up for your Casebriefs Cloud account Click Here, Thank you for registering as a Pre-Law Student with Casebriefs. 88-1150. Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Division One. The District Court then held that the State and KCMSD were 75% and 25% at fault, respectively, and ordered them to share the cost of the desegregation remedy in that proportion. Id., at 470-488. United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Citation 491 US 274 (1989) Argued Feb 21, 1989 Decided Jun 19, 1989 Advocates Bruce Farmer Assistant Attorney General of Missouri, argued the cause for the petitioners Jay Topkis argued the cause for the respondents Facts of the case On December 31, 1988, 78 days after the issuance of the order denying rehearing and 134 days after the entry of the Court of Appeals' judgment, Jackson County presented to this Court an application for extension of time in which to file a petition for certiorari. . Missouri v. Jenkins (Jenkins II) United States Supreme Court 495 U.S. 33 (1990) Facts The Kansas City, Missouri, School District (the district) (plaintiff) and a group of students (plaintiffs) sued Missouri (defendant) in 1977 for maintaining a segregated school system in violation of Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). U.S. 274, 280 Evans v. Buchanan, 582 F.2d 750 (1978), cert. (1881); United States v. New Orleans, However, concluding that federal/state comity principles required the District Court to use minimally obtrusive methods to remedy constitutional violations, it required that, in the future, the lower court should not set the property tax rate itself, but should authorize KCMSD to submit a levy to state tax collection authorities and should enjoin the operation of state tax laws hindering KCMSD from adequately funding the remedy. All rights reserved. Cf. Allen R. Snyder Argued the cause for the respondents. Davis v. Michigan Dept. A court can direct a local government body to levy. The difference between the two approaches is far more than a matter of form. JUSTICE KENNEDY, with whom THE CHIEF JUSTICE, JUSTICE O'CONNOR, and JUSTICE SCALIA join, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. No other order of the District Court was before the Court of Appeals. 22Jenkins, 855 F.2d at 1309. In 1977, KCMSD and a group of KCMSD students filed a complaint alleging that the State of Missouri and surrounding school districts had operated a segregated public school system in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Third, the federal courts in devising a remedy must take into account the interests of state and local authorities in managing their own affairs, consistent with the Constitution. . Opinion Announcement - April 18, 1990, Board of Commissioners of Knox County v. Aspinwall. U.S. 33, 73] Authorizing and directing local government institutions to devise and implement remedies not only protects the function of those institutions but, to the extent possible, also places the responsibility for solutions to the problems of segregation upon those who have themselves created the problems. This case clearly reveals a Court majority attempting to place parameters around what was once a relatively broad view of a federal courts ability to cure the ills of past racial discrimination. Alexis I. du Pont Jenkins Case Brief Case Name: Missouri v. Jenkins Case Citation: 491 U.S. 274 (1989) FACTS: Plaintiff sues Defendants claiming racial segregation. The district court then instead named the KCMSD school district as a defendant. Had it regarded the State's papers as only a suggestion for rehearing in banc, without a petition for rehearing, it would have, as required by Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure 35(c) and 41(a), issued its mandate within 21 days of the entry of the panel's judgment or would have, under Rule 41(a), issued an order extending the time for the issuance of the mandate. The District Court orders in this case suggest the pitfalls of the first course. Respondents insist that the Eighth Circuit routinely withholds the mandate during the pendency of a suggestion for rehearing in banc even without the order contemplated by Rule 41(a) and point us to United States v. Samuels, 808 F.2d 1298, 1299 (1987), where the Chief Judge of that court wrote separately respecting the denial of rehearing in banc to emphasize that the Eighth Circuit has done so. No. address. 402 of Education, Remedial powers of an equity court must be adequate to the task, but they are not unlimited, and one of the most important considerations governing the exercise of equitable power is a proper respect for the integrity and function of local government institutions. [495 (1989). U.S., at 266 As the Eighth Circuit judges dissenting from denial of rehearing in banc put it: "The remedies ordered go far beyond anything previously seen in a school desegregation case. [495 No cost was placed on the interdistrict transfer program, but the State was ordered to underwrite the program in full. After winning the case against the state of Missouri. [495 (Powell, J., concurring in judgment). 1651, 1666, 109 L.Ed.2d 31 (1990), another case involving school desegregation, the Court held, "Even though a particular remedy may not be required in every case to vindicate constitutional guarantees, where (as here) it has been found that a particular remedy is required, the State cannot hinder the process by preventing a local government . By then it was clear that KCMSD would lack the resources to pay for its 25% share of the desegregation cost. Instead, the court and the KCMSD decided to make a magnet of the district as a whole. Footnote 3 Whatever the Court thinks of the Court of Appeals' opinion, the District Court on remand appears to have thought it was under no compulsion to disturb its existing order establishing the $4 property tax rate through fiscal year 1991-1992 unless and until it became necessary to raise property taxes even higher. alteration of the rights [is] asked, and the finality of the court's first When it was subsequently brought to the Eighth Circuit's attention that it had neglected to refer to those papers in its order as petitions for rehearing with suggestions for rehearing in banc, the court amended its order nunc pro tunc to ensure that the order reflected the reality of the action taken on October 14. App. 138-142. Although a District Court necessarily has discretion to fashion a remedy for a school district unconstitutionally segregated in law, such remedial power is not unlimited and may not be extended to purposes beyond the elimination of racial discrimination in public schools. (1984); United States v. Missouri, 515 F.2d 1365 (in banc), cert. U.S. 533, 585 855 F.2d, at 1314; see infra, at 52. This Court has never approved a remedy of the type adopted by the District Court. App. 365 Const., Art. Missouri v. Jenkins (Jenkins II) | Case Brief for Law Students (1988). 2463, 105 L.Ed.2d 229 The following criteria must be considered in evaluating a request for attorneys' fees in a common fund.. Dowd v. City of L.A., Case No. Kansas City, Missouri, School Dist. U.S. 406 To hold otherwise would fail to take account of the obligations of local governments, under the Supremacy Clause, to fulfill the requirements that the Constitution imposes on them. Accepting the District Court's conclusion that state law limitations prevented KCMSD from raising sufficient funds, it held that those limitations must fall to the Constitution's command, and affirmed all of the District Court's actions taken to that point. . [495 U.S. 267 Missouri v. Jenkins | Case Brief for Law School | LexisNexis After a lengthy trial, the District Court found that KCMSD and the State had operated a segregated school system within the KCMSD. We turn to the constitutional issues. School Dist. Both Benson and the LDF employed numerous paralegals, law clerks, and recent law graduates, and the court awarded fees for their work based on market rates, again using current, rather than historic rates, in order to compensate for the delay in payment. This assertion of judicial power in one of the most sensitive of policy areas, that involving taxation, begins a process that over time could threaten fundamental alteration of the form of government our Constitution embodies. A third group of cases involving taxation and municipal bonds is more relevant. We cannot create new . While courts must intervene to stop harmful segregation in schools, its power is bounded by the nature and scope of the constitutional violation. The Court of Appeals should not have allowed the tax increase to stand and should have reversed the District Court in this respect. U.S. 33, 64] It comes as no surprise that the cost of this approach to the remedy far exceeded KCMSD's budget, or for that matter, its authority to tax. 503. See, e. g., App. With him on the briefs were William Webster, Attorney General of Missouri, James B. Deutsch, Deputy Attorney General, Michael J. Footnote 14 We have long since determined that "unequal expenditures between children who happen to reside in different districts" do not violate the Equal Protection Clause. . By the time of the order at issue here, the District Court's remedies included some "$260 million in capital improvements and a magnet-school plan costing over $200 million." To put the matter another way, while the petition for rehearing is pending, there is no "judgment" to be reviewed. But if today's dicta become law, such lessons will be of little use to students who grow up to become taxpayers in the KCMSD. Team Assignment (Teams DH): Please write a short memorandum (3-5 pages) considering whether the Supreme Court's decision in the two Missouri v. Jenkins cases are consistent or inconsistent. an abstract question. ] Rule 35(c) explicitly states that the pendency of a suggestion for rehearing in banc shall not "affect the finality of the judgment of the court of appeals or stay the issuance of the mandate." It also marks the Courts departure from broad, aggressive federal court remedies to provide equal education opportunities in public schools. And the remedial orders grew more expensive as shortfalls in revenue became more severe. In this major school desegregation litigation in Kansas City, Missouri, in which various desegregation remedies were granted against the State of Missouri and other defendants, the plaintiff class was represented by a Kansas City lawyer (Benson) and by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF). 855 F.2d, at 1318-1319. U.S. 923 Oral Argument - January 11, 1995. See ante, at 55-57. 433 Id., at 112a. which to guide or review them. 10 The State of Missouri and Kansas City students had been involved in an 18-year-long. en banc are denied." . Missouri v. Jenkins - Case Briefs - 1988, Case Briefs - 1989, Case Briefs - 1994 Missouri v. Jenkins PETITIONER:Missouri RESPONDENT:Kalima Jenkins et al. U.S. 267 (emphasis added). Furthermore, if the District Court had chosen the route now suggested by the State, implementation of the remedial order might have been delayed if the State resisted efforts by KCMSD to obtain contribution. 374 Missouri v. Jenkins, 491 U.S. 274, 285, 109 S.Ct. See Spallone v. United States, Examination of the "long and venerable line of cases," ante, at 55, cited by the Court to endorse judicial taxation reveals the lack of real support for the Court's rationale. 330 Instead, the District Court's conclusion that desegregation might be easier if more nonminority students could be attracted into the KCMSD was used as the hook on which to hang numerous policy choices about improving the quality of education in general within the KCMSD. See Louisiana ex rel. 493 U.S. 33, 81]. 1986) (en banc), cert. Perhaps it is good educational policy to provide a school district with the items included in the KCMSD capital improvement plan, for example: high schools in which every classroom will have air conditioning, an alarm system, and 15 microcomputers; a 2,000-square-foot planetarium; greenhouses and vivariums; a 25-acre farm with an air-conditioned meeting room for 104 people; a Model United Nations wired for language translation; broadcast capable radio and television studios with an editing and animation lab; a temperature controlled art gallery; movie editing and screening rooms; a 3,500-square-foot dust-free diesel mechanics room; 1,875-square-foot elementary school animal rooms for use in a zoo project; swimming pools; and numerous other facilities. But in the end we accept the Eighth Circuit's interpretation of its October 14 order and will not assume that its action in this case is not in accord with its regular practice. A second set of cases, including the Von Hoffman case relied upon by the Court, invalidates on Contracts Clause grounds statutory limitations on taxation power passed subsequent to grants of tax authority in support of bond obligations. [ to Pet. The "Hancock Amendment" requires property tax rates to be rolled back when property is assessed at a higher valuation to ensure that taxes will not be increased solely as a result of reassessments. 18 Id., at 43-44. Cf. The court reasoned that the State should pay for most of the desegregation cost under the principle that "the person U.S. 531, 541 Please check your email and confirm your registration. For reasons explained below, I agree with the Court that the Eighth Circuit's judgment affirming the District Court's direct levy of a property tax must be reversed. ] A petition for rehearing is designed to bring to the panel's attention points of law or fact that it may have overlooked. 200 In Jenkins, a majority of the Court held that, under . -259 (1953). I am required in light of our limited grant of certiorari to assume that the remedy chosen by the District Court was a permissible exercise of its remedial discretion. Finally, we will discuss recent litigation regarding the budget of the District of Columbia. City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board v. College Savings Bank, Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett, Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Missouri_v._Jenkins&oldid=1063285610, United States Supreme Court cases of the Rehnquist Court, United States school desegregation case law, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. appeal after remand, 103 F.3d 731 (8th Cir. While a district court should not grant local government carte blanche, local officials should at least have the opportunity to devise their own solutions to such problems. The courts held that the state of Missouri was liable for segregated schools within the boundaries of KCMSD. The historical record of voluntary compliance with the decree of Brown v. Board of Education is not a proud chapter in our constitutional history, and the judges of the District Courts and Courts of Appeals have been courageous and skillful in implementing its mandate. Brief for Respondents at 7, Missouri v. Jenkins, 110 S. Ct. 1651 (1990) (No. The U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari to consider the salary and quality education program issues. 35, 28 U.S.C. An important part of the district court remedy included the implementation of a magnet . U.S., at 291 visual attractiveness sought by the Court as it would result in floor coverings with unsightly sections of mismatched carpeting and tile, and individual walls possessing different shades of paint." The case before us represents the first in which a lower federal court has in fact upheld taxation to fund a remedial decree.
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