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UNITED STATES v. CHOCTAW COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION

No. 27297.

417 F.2d 838 (1969)

UNITED STATES of America, by John MITCHELL, Attorney General, Plaintiff-Appellant, Danita Hampton, by her Mother and Next Friend, Yvonne Hampton, et al., Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellants, v. CHOCTAW COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendant-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 26, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frankie L. Fields, Vernon Z. Crawford, Vernol R. Jansen, Jr., U. S. Atty., Mobile, Ala., Gary J. Greenberg, Kenneth L. Johnson, Merle W. Loper, Attys., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Washington, D. C., Jack Greenberg, Franklin E. White, Lowell Johnston, New York City, for appellant.

J. Edward Thornton, Mobile, Ala., John Y. Christopher, Butler, Ala., for appellees.

Before WISDOM, Circuit Judge, and CARSWELL and ROBERTS, District Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

This school desegregation case is one of a number of recent cases1 raising the question whether school boards should resort to zoning and pairing of schools rather than adhere to freedom of choice as prescribed in Jefferson.2

Some day in the not-far-distant future this Court should be able to say to a school board, "You have met...

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