UNITED STATES v. HINDS COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD

Nos. 28030, 28042.

423 F.2d 1264 (1969)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HINDS COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 4075(J)) Buford A. LEE et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellant, v. Milton EVANS, Third-Party Defendant-Appellee. (Civil Action No. 2034(H)) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. KEMPER COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 1373(E)) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NORTH PIKE COUNTY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 3807(J)) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NATCHEZ SPECIAL MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 1120(W)) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MARION COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 2178(H)) Joan ANDERSON et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant, v. The CANTON MUNICIPAL SCHOOL DISTRICT et al. and the Madison County School District et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 3700(J)) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SOUTH PIKE COUNTY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 3984(J)) Beatrice ALEXANDER et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. HOLMES COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 3779(J)) Roy Lee HARRIS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The YAZOO COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 1209(W)) John BARNHARDT et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MERIDIAN SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 1300(E)) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NESHOBA COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 1396(E)) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NOXUBEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 1372(E)) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LAUDERDALE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 1367(E)) Dian HUDSON et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant, v. LEAKE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 3382(J)) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COLUMBIA MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 2199(H)) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMITE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 3983(J)) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COVINGTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 2148(H)) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LAWRENCE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 2216(H)) Jeremiah BLACKWELL, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ISSAQUENA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 1096(W)) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WILKINSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 1160(W)) Charles KILLINGSWORTH et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The ENTERPRISE CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT and Quitman Consolidated School District, Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 1302(E)) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LINCOLN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 4292(J)) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PHILADELPHIA MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 1368(E)) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FRANKLIN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Civil Action No. 4256(J))

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 7, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David D. Gregory, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Robert Hauberg, U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., David L. Norman, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert T. Moore, Robert A. Murphy, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Washington, D. C., Reuben V. Anderson, Fred L. Banks, Jr., Melvyn Leventhal, Jackson, Miss., Norman Chachkin, Jack Greenberg, Jonathan Shapiro, New York City, for appellant.

Robert C. Cannada, John M. Putnam, Jackson, Miss., M. M. Roberts, James H. C. Thomas, Jr., Howard L. Patterson, Jr., Hattiesburg, Miss., Thomas H. Watkins, Jackson, Miss., L. P. Spinks, Jr., DeKalb, Miss., John Gordon Roach, McComb, Miss., R. Brent Forman, Natchez, Miss., Richard D. Foxworth, Philip Singley, Columbia, Miss., Robert Goza, W. S. Cain, Joe R. Fancher, Jr., Canton, Miss., Aubrey A. Calhoun, Mt. Olive, Miss., Robert S. Reeves, McComb, Miss., Thad Leggett, III, Magnolia, Miss., William B. Compton, Robert B. Deen, Jr., Meridian, Miss., Herman Alford, Laurel G. Weir, Philadelphia, Miss., Ernest L. Brown, Macon, Miss., Harold W. Davidson, Carthage, Miss., Maurice Dantin and Wm. C. Callender, Columbia, Miss., J. D. Gordon, Liberty, Miss., William D. Adams, John K. Keyes, Collins, Miss., Cary C. Bass, Jr., Monticello, Miss., A. F. Summer, Atty. Gen. of Miss., Jackson, Miss., Charles Clark, Cox, Dunn & Clark, Reuben Anderson, Jackson, Miss., Herman C. Glazier, Jr., J. Wesley Miller, Rolling Fork, Miss., Richard T. Watson, Woodville, Miss., Henry W. Hobbs, Jr., Brookhaven, Miss., Charles H. Herring, Meadville, Miss., Calvin R. King, Durant, Miss., G. Milton Case, Canton, Miss., Thomas H. Campbell, Jr., Walter R. Bridgforth, John C. Satterfield, Yazoo City, Miss., James S. George, Monticello, Miss., Will S. Wells, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., J. E. Smith, Carthage, Miss., Helen McDade, DeKalb, Miss., Robert E. Covington, Jr., Tally D. Riddell, Quitman, Miss., W. W. Hewitt, Meadville, Miss., for appellees.

Before BELL, THORNBERRY and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

These cases, consolidated for order, are here for disposition in light of the decision of the Supreme Court in Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, 396 U.S. 19, 90 S.Ct. 29, 24 L. Ed.2d 19, dated October 29, 1969. They involve 30 school districts in the Southern District of Mississippi. Suits to disestablish the dual school system were brought against fourteen of the school districts by private litigants: Anguilla...

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