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POINDEXTER v. LOUISIANA FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE COMMISSION

Civ. A. No. 14683.

296 F.Supp. 686 (1968)

Bryan POINDEXTER et al. v. LOUISIANA FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE COMMISSION et al.

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

Judgment Affirmed October 14, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Davidson, Charles Jones, and A. P. Tureaud, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs.

Hugh W. Fleischer and Joseph Ray Terry, Jr., New Orleans, La., U. S. Dept. of Justice, for plaintiff-intervenors.

Leander H. Perez, Sr., New Orleans, La., and Luke A. Petrovich, Buras, La., for Louisiana Education Commission for Needy Children.

Richard C. Cadwallader, Baton Rouge, La., and "Cy" D. F. Courtney, New Orleans, La., for parents and directors of four non-sectarian Negro schools in Orleans Parish.

Samuel I. Rosenberg, New Orleans, La., for Orleans Parish School Bd.

Before WISDOM and AINSWORTH, Circuit Judges, and CHRISTENBERRY, District Judge.

Judgment Affirmed October 14, 1968. See 89 S.Ct. 48.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

The free lunches and textbooks Louisiana provides all children in public and private schools are the fruits of a benevolent racially neutral policy. But Louisiana's tuition grants to children attending private schools are the product of the State's traditional racial policy of providing segregated schools for white children. Act 99 of 1967, now before us, followed Act 147 of 1962,...

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