Today in Supreme Court History: August 29

Keyes v. Denver School District No. 1, 396 U.S. 1215 (decided August 29, 1969): Brennan vacates Circuit Court’s stay of desegregation plan; Circuit Court’s rationale was to allow time to build public support for plan, but that is not a good enough reason (Denver went through years of litigation with various plans, finally ending in 1991)

Loran Cole v. Florida, 145 S.Ct. 109(Mem.) (decided August 29, 2024): denies stay of execution; Cole, who had been on death row for 30 years for rape and murder of a college student, died by lethal injection later that day; according to his wife, interviewed by the Tallahassee Democrat, “aside from the drugs and petty thievery, he was fun, loving and intelligent”