PLAQUEMINES PARISH COMMISSION COUNCIL v. UNITED STATES

No. 26268.

416 F.2d 952 (1969)

PLAQUEMINES PARISH COMMISSION COUNCIL et al., Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America by John MITCHELL, Attorney General of the United States, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

August 15, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leander H. Perez, pro se.

Leander H. Perez, Jr., Dist. Atty., Pointe-a-la-Hache, La., Luke A. Petrovich, Buras, La., Sidney Provensal, Jr., New Orleans, La., for appellants.

John Mitchell, Atty. Gen. of U. S., Stephen J. Pollack, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civil Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Louis C. LaCour, U. S. Atty., Hugh W. Fleischer, U. S. Dept. of Justice, New Orleans, La., Frank M. Dunbaugh, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before GODBOLD and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges, and McRAE, District Judge.


SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:

The Plaquemines Parish Commission Council and the parish School Board appeal from an order of the district court entered March 19, 1968, restraining the appellants from closing the Plaquemines Parish public school system prior to the regularly scheduled termination of the 1967-68 school year and further restraining the appellants from failing to provide adequate revenue to allow the operation of the Plaquemines Parish public school system for...

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