Identifier	frankbattisti001
Title	Judge Frank J. Battisti
Subject	Judges
LC Subject Headings	Battisti, Frank Joseph, 1922 - 1994 Judges -- United States
Description	Frank Joseph Battisti (October 4, 1922 - October 19, 1994) was a federal judge for the United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio. Judge Battisti was the trial judge assigned to the Cleveland public school desegregation case Reed v. Rhodes, Case No. C73-1300. On August 31, 1976, Judge Battisti decided in Reed v. Rhodes, 422 F.Supp 708, 796-97 (N.D. Ohio 1976), aff’d, 662 F.2d 1219 (6th Cir. 1981) that the State of Ohio and the Cleveland Public Schools intentionally created and maintained a segregated school system.
Creator	unknown
Location Depicted	Cleveland (Ohio)
Time Period	Decline and Comeback: 1960-1990
Date Original	1976-08-12
Object Type	black-and-white photographs
Case Name	Reed v. Rhodes
Digital Collection	Legal Landmarks in Cleveland History
Donor	Cole, Joseph E.
Copyright	http://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/
Format	Jpeg
Repository	Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.
Repository Collection	Cleveland Press
Repository Homepage	http://library.csuohio.edu/speccoll/index.html
Digital Publisher	Cleveland Memory Project
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Entry	http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=BFJ1

Judge Frank J. Battisti

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