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CRAWFORD v. LOS ANGELES BOARD OF EDUCATION
Supreme Court of United States (1982) | 458 U.S. 527; 102 S.Ct. 3211; 73 L.Ed.2d 948
TL;DR: The Supreme Court upheld a California constitutional amendment that prohibited state courts from ordering mandatory school busing unless a federal court could do so under the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court found the amendment was a permissible repeal of a state-created remedy, not an unconstitutional racial classification.
Legal Significance: A state may repeal or modify state laws that provide protections exceeding federal constitutional requirements without violating the Equal Protection Clause, provided the repeal itself is not motivated by a discriminatory purpose and does not restructure the political process to disadvantage a racial minority.