BUSH v. ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD

Civ. A. No. 3630.

190 F.Supp. 861 (1960)

Earl Benjamin BUSH et al., Plaintiffs, v. ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD et al., Defendants.

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

December 21, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. P. Tureaud, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs.

M. Hepburn Many, U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., for United States, amicus curiae.

Samuel I. Rosenberg, New Orleans, La., for Orleans Parish School Board, Board 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, Atty. Gen. of Louisiana, Michael E. Culligan, John E. Jackson, Jr., Weldon Cousins, Henry J. Roberts, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., for Jack P. F. Gremillion as Louisiana Attorney General, A. P. Tugwell as State Treasurer, Shelby M. Jackson as State Superintendent of Education, Members of the State Board of Education, and Roy H. Theriot as State Comptroller.

Monroe & Lemann, J. Raburn Monroe, New Orleans, La., for Whitney Nat. Bank of New Orleans.

Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, Louis B. Claverie, New Orleans, for Hibernia Nat. Bank in New Orleans.

Sehrt & Boyle, Clem H. Sehrt, New Orleans, La., for National American Bank of New Orleans.

Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, George Denegre, New Orleans, La., for National Bank of Commerce in New Orleans.

Alvin J. Liska, New Orleans City Atty., Joseph Hurndon and Ernest L. Salatich, Asst. City Attys., New Orleans, La., for City of New Orleans.

W. Scott Wilkinson, Shreveport, La., Gibson Tucker, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Edward LeBreton and Seven Others Constituting the Committee of Eight of the Legislature of Louisiana.

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


PER CURIAM.

In these proceedings, we consider again1 the progress of desegregation in the public schools of the Parish of Orleans and the additional efforts made to interfere with that achievement. Because of what has been said and done by the government of Louisiana in all its branches, it becomes necessary to restate the fundamental principles that govern this controversy. Under the circumstances...

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