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LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION v. ALLEN

No. 18522.

287 F.2d 32 (1961)

LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, Nash Roberts, President et al., Appellants, v. Samuel ALLEN et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 13, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Schuler, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Louisiana, Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., Carroll Buck, First Asst. Atty. Gen., George M. Ponder, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellants.

A. P. Tureaud, New Orleans, La., Thurgood Marshall, Constance Baker Motley, New York City, A. M. Trudeau, Jr., Ernest N. Morial, New Orleans, La., for appellees.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, JONES, Circuit Judge, and MIZE, District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

The appellant, the Louisiana State Board of Education, is a body corporate under the laws of Louisiana.1 It was originally provided that as a corporate body, the Board might sue and be sued. We are informed that this authorization has been withdrawn. The appellees, Negroes, brought a class suit alleging that the appellant Board refused to admit them as students in the Shreveport Trades School because of their race and color...

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