BRUMFIELD v. DODD

Civ. A. No. 71-1316.

405 F.Supp. 338 (1975)

Oless BRUMFIELD, as next friend of Ervin Brumfield, et al. v. William J. DODD, Superintendent of Public Education of the State of Louisiana, et al.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana.

December 2, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George M. Strickler, Jr., New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs.

J. Stanley Pottinger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Alexander C. Ross, Thomas M. Keeling, Paul F. Hancock, Lawrence L. Newton, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Gerald J. Gallinghouse, U. S. Atty., Leonard P. Avery, Asst. U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., for intervenors.

William J. Guste, Jr., Louisiana Atty. Gen., Warren E. Mouledoux, First Asst. Atty. Gen., William P. Curry, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendants Louis J. Michot (substituted for William J. Dodd), Louisiana Superintendent of Public Education; Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (substituted for Louisiana State Board of Education and its individual members); and Mary Evelyn Parker, Louisiana State Treasurer.

James J. Thornton, Jr., Johnston, Johnston & Thornton, Shreveport, La., for defendants Sam L. Ledbetter and Jackson Parish School Board.

Woodrow W. Erwin, Dist. Atty., Franklinton, La., for defendants Earl Brown, James Bailey and Washington Parish School Board.

Julian P. Rodrigue, Asst. Dist. Atty., Covington, La., for defendants Cyprian T. Schoen, and St. Tammany Parish School Board.

Thompson L. Clarke, Dist. Atty., St Joseph, La., for defendants Charles E. Thompson and The Tensas Parish School Board.

Hal R. Henderson, Dist. Atty., Arcadia, La., for defendants Hugh W. Whatley, Claiborne Parish School Board, M. A. Phillips and Madison Parish School Board.

Before WISDOM, Circuit Judge, HEEBE, Chief District Judge, and GORDON, District Judge.


HEEBE, Chief Judge.

This is a civil action seeking to enjoin the Louisiana State Department of Education from providing books, school material, and funds for student transportation to students attending all-white, segregated private schools in the State of Louisiana. The suit also requests that state statutes providing for such assistance to private schools be declared unconstitutional as violative of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Because...

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