It is the same thing with this city's desegregation order.
The city has spent $15 million fighting the desegregation order.
In 1985, just before the judge issued his desegregation order, 47 percent of the student population was black or Hispanic.
The housing is to be built as part of the longstanding federal desegregation order.
The federal courts had long been overseeing a desegregation order.
The desegregation order, they argue, is 30 years old.
What should a court do when a community under a desegregation order continuously drags its feet?
"Basically, these changes are taking place whether or not you have a desegregation order," he said.
The trial was overshadowed rather quickly by the desegregation order.
He also asked the plaintiffs to recommend ways to force the city to implement his desegregation order.