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Raoul Berger, Warren Senior Fellow in American Legal History, gave the firm a "very high recommendation" in a meeting with the mayor two weeks ago, Herbert P. Gleason, corporation counsel to the city of Boston, said...
...firm will now petition the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari requesting the Massachusetts First Circuit Court of Appeals to certify the record of its decision last year to uphold the Phase Two busing orders handed down by Federal District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity last spring, Gleason said...
White is asking Berger in particular to help with the brief because he wants to contest the constitutionality of a law that compels elected officials to appropriate funds for busing, Gleason said. Busing costs have left the city with a severe financial crisis, he added...
...mayor recognizes that Garrity is doing what he is required to do, but he finds the judge's preconceptions about the practicability of busing hard to take," Gleason said...
...Gleason said White feels that Garrity has not given consideration to the mayor's jobs of running the city, and that Garrity has had too much faith in the competence of school department officials to implement his busing orders...