The order of argument for Brown v Board of Education is an order for the five separate cases in 1952 (relating to segregation of public schools) to be reargued. The courts asked for briefs from all parties, in all five cases, inquiring if they believed segregation within schools had been considered when the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified by Congress. This document kept track of the order these cases were reheard, time spent per case, new dates of each case, and names of attorneys involved. After the initial process of rehearing all the cases, the court took time to finalize a decision. The nation waited over five months for a verdict, and it was well worth the wait because the decision made by Chief Justice Earl Warren declared that ‘separate but equal’ schooling has no place in American public-school systems.