UNITED STATES v. HINDS COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD

No. 25529.

402 F.2d 926 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. HINDS COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

August 14, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Hauberg, U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., Dorothy Battle Rankin, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Stephen J. Pollack, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frank M. Dunbaugh, Robert T. Moore, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

William A. Allain, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., Robert C. Cannada, John M. Putnam, Jackson, Miss., for appellees; Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, Miss., Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., of counsel.

Before WISDOM and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges, and MITCHELL, District Judge.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

In this case involving approval of a freedom of choice plan of school desegregation the Court allows a minor departure from the model decree fabricated by the Court en banc in United States v. Jefferson County Board of Education, 5 Cir. 1967, 380 F.2d 385; aff'g 5 Cir. 1966, 372 F.2d 836, cert. denied, 1967, Board of Education of City of Bessemer v. United States, 389 U.S. 840...

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