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COFFEY v. STATE EDUCATIONAL FINANCE COMMISSION

Civ. A. No. 3906.

296 F.Supp. 1389 (1969)

Mildred COFFEY et al., Plaintiffs, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. STATE EDUCATIONAL FINANCE COMMISSION et al., Defendants, State of Mississippi, Added Defendant.

United States District Court S. D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

January 29, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reuben Anderson, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs.

Robert E. Hauberg, U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., Robert T. Moore, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-intervenor.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen. of Miss., John E. Stone, Earl T. Thomas, Jackson, Miss., Semmes Luckett, Clarksdale, Miss., Hardy Lott, Greenwood, Miss., for defendants.

Before GODBOLD, Circuit Judge, and COX and RUSSELL, District Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This class action was brought by Negro school children and their parents, residents of Mississippi, against the Educational Finance Commission of that state. The suit challenges the constitutionality of state tuition grants to Mississippi children between the ages of six and twenty-one attending private, nonsectarian schools.1

The United States intervened as a party plaintiff under 42 U.S.C. § 2000h-2 (§ 902...

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