and coding of thousands of case dockets, opinions, and other court documents across multiple years: 2000-2006 for essay 1, 2000-2004 for essays 2 and 3), nearly 30 district courts, and numerous issues areas that together account for about 40 percent of federal district court civil filings....
The Supreme Court's vague directives in ignited decades of turmoil in schools and courtrooms across the South as local judges, influenced by local pressures, advanced their own agendas when school desegregation suits arrived on their dockets. However, segregationists would not gain the upper hand....