Comments on: Claim: underfunding of Chicago transit authority constitutes racial bias https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/01/claim-underfunding-of-chicago-transit-authority-constitutes-racial-bias/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:30:54 +0000 hourly 1 By: Melvin H. https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/01/claim-underfunding-of-chicago-transit-authority-constitutes-racial-bias/comment-page-1/#comment-82751 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:30:54 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=15843#comment-82751 Given what consent orders have done all over the country to school systems, local governments, etc. it’s a shame that some court won’t decalre such things as unconstitutional under separation of powers–whether a gov’t. entity funds, how much it funds, or not should not be able to be over-ridden by a court order (just ask, for example, the people in the Kansas City school system).

]]> By: Ted Frank https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/01/claim-underfunding-of-chicago-transit-authority-constitutes-racial-bias/comment-page-1/#comment-82708 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:32:39 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=15843#comment-82708 In California, the same sort of lawsuit was used in Los Angeles to put the bus system under the control of the court. The court signed off on a sham consent agreement that benefited the Los Angeles bus system at the expense of taxpayers whose opposition to funding meant that normal democracy would not produce a bus system funded at the level that politicians wanted.

Hypothetically, the Seventh Circuit views that type of shenanigan as unconstitutional, so it will be interesting to see what happens.

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