HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT v. ROSS

No. 18528.

282 F.2d 95 (1960)

HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Appellants, v. Delois ROSS, a Minor, by her mother and next friend, Mary Alice Benjamin et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

September 6, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe H. Reynolds, J. S. Bracewell, Houston, Tex., for appellants.

Thurgood Marshall, New York City, Weldon H. Berry, Houston, Tex., for appellees.

Before RIVES, Chief Judge, and JONES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

The original complaint praying for a desegregation of the public schools operated by the Houston Independent School District was filed on December 26, 1956. On October 15, 1957 the district court entered a judgment restraining and enjoining the defendants, Houston Independent School District, its officers and members and the Superintendent of the public schools of said district and their successors in office from requiring segregation of the races in any...

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