POINDEXTER v. LOUISIANA FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE COMMISSION

Civ. A. No. 14683.

275 F.Supp. 833 (1967)

Bryan POINDEXTER, a minor, by Lorraine Poindexter, his mother and next friend et al., Plaintiffs, v. LOUISIANA FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE COMMISSION et al., Defendants.

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

Judgment Affirmed January 15, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. P. Tureaud, A. M. Trudeau, Jr., New Orleans, La., Jack Greenberg, Henry M. Aronson, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Hugh W. Fleischer, Ray Terry, J. Harold Flannery, U. S. Dept. of Justice, for plaintiff-intervenor.

Victor A. Sachse, Baton Rouge, La., J. J. Davidson, Jr., Lafayette, Sidney W. Provensal, Jr., New Orleans, La., for La. Financial Assistance Comm., E. W. Gravolet, Jr., Jas. R. Leake, Jas. D. Fontain and Lantz Womack.

Frank L. Dobson, Baton Rouge, La., for Louisiana State Bd. of Education.

Walter E. Doane, New Orleans, La., for Ninth Ward Elementary School and Armond J. Duvio, and Carrollton Elementary School Association.

Sydney J. Parlongue, New Orleans, La., for Garden District Academy.

Cy Courtney, New Orleans, La., Richard Cadwallader, Baton Rouge, La., for Mrs. Thelma Deamer, Carroll Leach, Rosetta Jiles and Mrs. Fannie Magee defendant-intervenors.

Before WISDOM and AINSWORTH, Circuit Judges, and CHRISTENBERRY, District Judge.


Judgment Affirmed January 15, 1968. See 88 S.Ct. 693.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

This class action by Negro schoolchildren and their parents against the Louisiana Financial Assistance Commission and others1 attacks the constitutionality of Act 147 of 1962.2 Under that law the Commission administers a program of tuition grants to pupils attending private schools...

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