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163242P.pdf 07/27/2017 E.L. v. V.I.C.C.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-3242
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Colloton and Beam, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - School Desegregation. Plaintiff lacked standing to sue the
Voluntary Interdistrict Choice Corporation, a non-profit corporation
created by a 1999 settlement agreement in the St. Louis School
Desegregation Case, over a claim that a policy declaring African-American
students living outside the city ineligible for enrollment in the city
charter schools was a violation of plaintiff's civil rights; the decision
to reject the student's enrollment was made by the charter school to which
the student applied, and VICC has no administrative or supervisory
authority over the charter schools; in any event, the rules and
regulations for charter schools are made by the schools and the State of
Missouri, and nothing VICC did caused plaintiff's injury; since
plaintiff's injury is not fairly traceable to VICC, plaintiff lacks
standing.