PLAQUEMINES PARISH SCHOOL BOARD v. UNITED STATES

No. 24009.

415 F.2d 817 (1969)

PLAQUEMINES PARISH SCHOOL BOARD et al., Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

August 15, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney W. Provensal, Leander H. Perez, New Orleans, La., Luke A. Petrovich, Buras, La., for appellants.

David L. Norman, Frank M. Dunbaugh, Owen M. Fiss, Joseph Ray Terry, Jr., Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Hugh W. Fleischer, Atty., Dept. of Justice, New Orleans, La., Louis C. La Cour, U. S. Atty., John Doar, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before GODBOLD and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges, and McRAE, District Judge.


SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:

The Commission Council of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, and the Parish School Board appeal from the district court's permanent injunction of June 27, 1967, against the Commission Council and the School Board with respect to the desegregation of the public schools of Plaquemines Parish. The district court entered a Jefferson-type, freedom-of-choice decree.1 By preliminary injunction entered August 26, 1966...

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