BUSH v. ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD

Civ. A. Nos. 3630, 10329, 10566.

188 F.Supp. 916 (1960)

Earl Benjamin BUSH et al., Plaintiffs, v. ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD et al., Defendants. Harry K. WILLIAMS et al., Plaintiffs, v. Jimmie H. DAVIS, Governor of the State of Louisiana et al., Defendants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. STATE OF LOUISIANA et al., Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

November 30, 1960


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thurgood Marshall, New York City, A. P. Tureaud, A. M. Trudeau, Jr., Ernest M. Morial, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs, Earl Benjamin Bush and others.

Charles E. Richards, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs, Harry K. Williams and others.

M. Hepburn Many, U. S. Atty., Prim B. Smith, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., Gerald P. Choppin, Civil Rights Division, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff, the United States.

Samuel I. Rosenberg, Peter H. Beer, William Campbell, Jr., George Denegre, William B. Dreux, James H. Drury, Lucien M. Gex, Jr., William J. Guste, Jr., Victor H. Hess, Jr., W. Ford Reese, John E. Hurley, Ralph N. Jackson, Walter J. Landry, Joseph McCloskey, J. Thomas Nelson, John P. Nelson, Jr., Ashton Phelps, Robert G. Polack, Ivor A. Trapolin, Beryl E. Wolfson, New Orleans, La., for Orleans Parish School Bd., Bd. Members Lloyd Rittiner, Louis G. Riecke, Matthew R. Sutherland and Theodore H. Shepherd, Jr., and Dr. James F. Redmond, Superintendent of Orleans Parish Schools.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Louisiana Atty. Gen., Michael E. Culligan, John E. Jackson, Jr., William P. Schuler, Weldon Cousins and Jack Brittain, Asst. Attys. Gen., Richard Dowling, Orleans Parish Dist. Atty., New Orleans, La., for Jack P. F. Gremillion as Louisiana Atty. Gen., A. P. Tugwell as State Treasurer, Shelby M. Jackson as State Superintendent of Ed., Members of the State Bd. of Ed., Colonel Murphy J. Roden as State Director of Public Safety, Major General Raymond H. Flemming as State Adjutant General, Roy H. Theriot as State Comptroller, Bryan Clemmons as Sheriff of East Baton Rouge Parish, John Christian as Mayor of Baton Rouge, and Shirley S. Arrighi as Chief of the Baton Rouge Police Dept.

W. Scott Wilkinson, Shreveport, La., Thompson L. Clarke, Gibson Tucker, Jr., Russell J. Schonekas, New Orleans, La., for Edward LeBreton and Seven Others Constituting the Committee of Eight of the Legislature of Louisiana, and for Emile A. Wagner, Jr., Member of the Orleans Parish School Bd.

Alvin J. Liska, New Orleans City Attorney, Joseph Hurndon, Asst. City Atty., Ernest L. Salatich, Asst. City Atty., David MacHauer, Asst. City Atty., New Orleans, La., for deLesseps S. Morrison as Mayor of New Orleans and Joseph I. Giarrusso as Superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department.

Before RIVES, Circuit Judge, and CHRISTENBERRY and WRIGHT, District Judges.


Called into extraordinary session for November 4, 1960, just ten days before the day fixed by this court for the partial desegregation of the New Orleans public schools,1 the Louisiana Legislature promptly enacted 25 measures2 designed to halt, or at least forestall, the implementation of the Orleans Parish School Board's announced proposal to admit five Negro girls of...

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