''Guey Heung Lee v. Johnson'', 404 U.S. 1215 (1971), was a

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case regarding the

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of schools in

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. In 1971, the San Francisco Unified School District attempted to desegregate the school system by reassigning pupils attending segregated schools to other public schools. The School District submitted a comprehensive plan for desegregation which the District Court approved. Some Chinese parents protested the move, because in the Asian schools the students could learn about their cultural heritage, and they would lose this if they went to public schools. The

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entered a temporary

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pending a hearing in the District Court. Four days later, however, the Court of Appeals vacated that stay ''

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''. The District Court then denied the stay. Thereupon, a different three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals heard

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on the motions for a stay and denied those motions. The Supreme Court too denied the stay, saying

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