The Yonkers case is likely to energize fair-housing advocates to bring more desegregation lawsuits, several experts said.

Some of the black parents and students who had brought the original desegregation lawsuit went back to Federal court to reopen the case.

He called the report retaliation for Dr. Hornsby's battle with the mayor over the desegregation lawsuit.

While new desegregation lawsuits are rare, dozens of cases accuse states of skimping on education spending.

That project was put on hold when a federal court imposed a moratorium on new construction in 1987 as part of the city's long-running desegregation lawsuit.

He was integral in procuring unitary status in the lingering 40-year-old desegregation lawsuit against the school board.

Most desegregation lawsuits in the 1980's have been resolved with court-ordered plans that permit minority students to voluntarily transfer between schools and neighboring districts.

The move was part of a larger desegregation lawsuit.

They moved to Yonkers in 1979, months before a federal desegregation lawsuit exposed the city's racial tensions.

She eventually won a desegregation lawsuit against the managers of the Howard Athenaeum and received $500 in a settlement.