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Mayor Kevin H. White plans to ask Raoul Berger, Warren Senior Fellow in American Legal History at the Law School, to help construct a legal brief challenging court decisions ordering forced busing in Boston, an official close to the mayor said yesterday.
Herbert P. Gleason '50, corporation counsel for the city of Boston, said White will meet with Berger soon to discuss the possibility of writing a legal argument that the Supreme Court might recognize as "a viable alternative" to the Phase Two busing order decision that Federal District Court Judge W...
The publicity Berger received during the Watergate proceedings would be "a major factor in people taking him seriously" if he were to contest the busing order, Charles R. Nesson '60, professor of Law, said yesterday.
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.
Carter has claimed that he was influential in developing a voluntary school busing plan to achieve racial integration in Atlanta, but played no role at all.