# Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman

> Supreme Court of the United States · June 27, 1977 · 433 U.S. 406

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9426959

## Case

- **Full name:** DAYTON BOARD OF EDUCATION Et Al. v. BRINKMAN Et Al.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** June 27, 1977
- **Citations:** 433 U.S. 406; 97 S. Ct. 2766; 53 L. Ed. 2d 851; 1977 U.S. LEXIS 144
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Stevens
- **Judges:** Rehnquist, Burger, Stewart, White, Blacemun, Powell, Stevens, Brennan, Marshall
- **Cited by:** 364 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- describing the Sixth Circuit’s factual consideration as “in a purely descriptive vein: no findings of fact made by the District Court were reversed as having been clearly erroneous, and the Court of Appeals engaged in no factfinding of its own based on evidence adduced before …

## Opinion text

Mr. Justice Stevens,
concurring.
With the caveat that the relevant finding of intent in a case of this kind necessarily depends primarily on objective evidence concerning the effect of the Board’s action, rather than the subjective motivation of one or more members of the Board, see Washington v. Davis, 426 U. S. 229, 253-254 (Stevens, J., concurring), I join the Court’s opinion.

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