legal brief

Choose one of the following two cases (school segregation or EEOC v. Catastrophe Management Solutions) to write a short, 750-word legal brief. Follow the instructions and the information provided with the case to write the brief. You must use the course materials to justify your argument.
Case 1: School Segregation
In May 2016, 62 years after the landmark decision Brown v Board of Education, the Government Accountability Office released a study that showed that the number of high-poverty schools serving primarily black and brown students more than doubled between 2001 and 2014. The proportion of schools segregated by race and class—where more than 75 percent of children receive free or reduced-price lunch and more than 75 percent are black or Hispanic—climbed from 9 percent to 16 percent of schools between 2001 and 2014. The number of the most intensively segregated schools—with more than 90 percent of low-income students and students of color—more than doubled over that period.
The problem is not just that students are more isolated, according to the GAO, but that minority students who are concentrated in high-poverty schools don’t have the same access to opportunities as students in other schools. High-poverty, majority-black and Hispanic schools were less likely to offer a full range of math and science courses than other schools, for example, and more likely to use expulsion and suspension as disciplinary tools.
YOUR TASK: Imagine that parents have sued a resegregated school district. The case has traveled up the various levels of judicial appeal and will next be heard by the Supreme Court of the United States. The question before the Court is whether the resegregation of schools is a violation of the 14th Amendment. This is an opportunity to revisit the 1954 decision in Brown v Board of Education. You are tasked with writing a short, 750-word brief advising the Court what to do. You must use the course materials to justify your argument.

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