Following the Capacchione case and the declaration of CMS as “unitary”, a group of Black families filed a motion to reactivate the Swann case, arguing that CMS had not officially reached unitary status, and that maintaining desegregated schools was crucial to the quality of their children’s education. However, the United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit found that CMS had indeed ended their segregated system of schooling, and had achieved unitary status.