published in Newsline, recalling the tone of school officials at a meeting in June, 1977:

... I remember because I had attended a meeting at Mira Mesa High School that the district had staged. The whole tenor of the meeting was — get ready because it's (busing) coming and there is nothing you can do about it. That was the way it was presented. Make whatever accommodations you have to but just accept it.

The following experience presaged difficulty in finding a forum for their views in legal publications. Prior to undertaking representation of Groundswell, et al., I had submitted on August 14, 1978, an essay entitled "Court Busing-Orders Increasingly are Infringing upon our Liberty" to the California State Bar Journal. There was strong support within the editorial staff and committee for acceptance of this article for publication. But it was finally rejected six months later, on February 7, 1979.

The extent of my concern about judicially-ordered busing, at that time is shown by excerpts from that rejected essay (footnotes omitted) as follows:

"I don't know, but it's the law," replied the Montgomery (Alabama) officer to Rosa Parks when she asked on December 1, 1955, if it was fair that she should have to give up her bus seat to a white person, and move to standing room in the back of the bus just because she was black. This was the scene millions of Americans saw depicted at the start of each episode of the TV docu-drama called King.

When Mrs. Parks failed to leave her seat upon order of the officer, she was arrested, forcibly removed from the bus, taken to the police station and charged with violation of Alabama's bus-segregation law.

This law required the bus company to provide equal but separate accommodations on each bus for the "white and colored races," and the passengers were