Guey Heung Lee v. Johnson, 404 U.S. 1215 (1971), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the desegregation of schools in San Francisco. In 1971, the San Francisco Unified School District attempted to desegregate the school system by reassigning pupils attending segregated schools to other public schools. The School District submitted a comprehensive plan for desegregation which the District Court approved. Some Chinese parents protested the move, because in the Asian schools the students could learn about their cultural heritage, and they would lose this if they went to public schools. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit entered a temporary stay pending a hearing in the District Court. Four days later, however, the Court of Appeals vacated that stay sua sponte. The District Court then denied the stay. Thereupon, a different three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals heard oral argument on the motions for a stay and denied those motions. The Supreme Court too denied the stay, saying See also List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 404 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) References External links United States Supreme Court cases United States equal protection case law United States education case law United States racial desegregation case law Public education in California School segregation in the United States 1971 in United States case law 1971 in education United States Supreme Court cases of the Burger Court Asian-American issues