Editing Desegregation busing (section)

=== Los Angeles, California ===
In 1963, a lawsuit, ''Crawford v. Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles'',<ref>Crawford v. Board of Ed. of Los Angeles {{ussc|458|527|1982}}</ref> was filed to end segregation in the [[Los Angeles Unified School District]].  The [[California Supreme Court]] required the district to come up with a plan in 1977.  The board returned to court with what the court of appeal years later would describe as "one of if not the most drastic plan of mandatory student reassignment in the nation".<ref>''Crawford v. Board of Educ. of the City of Los Angeles'', 200 Cal. App. 3d 1397, 1402 (1988).</ref> A desegregation busing plan was developed, to be implemented in the 1978 school year.  Two suits to stop the enforced busing plan, both titled ''Bustop, Inc. v. Los Angeles Board of Education'', were filed by the group Bustop Inc., and were petitioned to the [[United States Supreme Court]].<ref>''Bustop, Inc. v. Los Angeles Bd. of Ed.'', {{ussc|439|1380|1978}}</ref> The petitions to stop the busing plan were subsequently denied by [[Justice Rehnquist]] and [[Justice Powell]].  California Constitutional Proposition&nbsp;1, which mandated that busing follow the [[Equal protection clause]] of the U.S. Constitution, passed in 1979 with 70 percent of the vote.  The ''Crawford v. Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles'' lawsuit was heard in the Supreme Court in 1982.<ref>David S. Ettinger, "[http://www.lacba.org/Files/LAL/Vol26No1/1302.pdf The Quest to DESEGREGATE Los Angeles Schools] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228005530/http://www.lacba.org/Files/LAL/Vol26No1/1302.pdf |date=2008-02-28 }}", ''Los Angeles Lawyer'', March 2003</ref> The Supreme Court upheld the decision that Proposition&nbsp;1 was constitutional, and that, therefore, mandatory busing was not permissible.