DOWELL v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF OKLAHOMA CITY PUB. SCH.

Nos. 191-70, 541-69, 542-69 and 435-69.

430 F.2d 865 (1970)

Robert L. DOWELL et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the OKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS et al., Defendants-Appellees, and Rebecca Diane Baker et al., Intervening Plaintiffs-Appellants. Robert L. DOWELL et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the OKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS et al., Defendants-Appellants, Stephen S. Sanger, Jr., et al., Intervening Plaintiffs, Jenny Mott McWilliams et al., Intervening Defendants. Robert L. DOWELL et al., Plaintiffs, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the OKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS et al., Defendants, and Stephen S. Sanger, Jr., et al., Intervening Plaintiffs, Jenny Mott McWilliams et al., Intervening Defendants-Appellants, Roy Hendrickson et al., Intervening Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

July 29, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Howard Edmondson and Joe Cannon, Oklahoma City, Okl., for appellants Rebecca Diane Baker and others.

J. Harry Johnson, Oklahoma City, Okl., for appellee Bd. of Ed. of Oklahoma City Public Schools and others.

John W. Walker, of Walker, Rotenberry, Kaplan, Lavey & Hollingsworth, Little Rock, Ark. (Archibald Hill, Jr., Oklahoma City, Okl., and Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, and Sylvia Drew, New York City, with him on the brief), for appellees Robert L. Dowell and others.

Leslie L. Conner, Oklahoma City, Okl. (Harry Johnson, and James M. Little, Oklahoma City, Okl., with him on brief), for appellants Bd. of Ed. of the Oklahoma City Public Schools and others.

John W. Walker, of Walker, Rotenberry, Kaplan, Lavey & Hollingsworth, Little Rock, Ark., for appellees Robert L. Dowell and others, and Calvin W. Hendrickson, Oklahoma City, Okl. for appellee-intervenor, Stephen S. Sanger, Jr. (Jack Greenberg, James M. Nebrit, III, Norman J. Chachkin, New York City, and Archibald B. Hill, Jr., Oklahoma City, Okl., with them on the brief).

C. Harold Thweatt, Oklahoma City, Okl. (Norman E. Reynolds, George S. Guysi, and George F. Short, Oklahoma City, Okl., with him on the brief), for intervening defendants-appellants Jenny Mott McWilliams and others.

David L. Norman, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen. (Jerris Leonard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Brian K. Landsberg, David B. Gregory, Joseph B. Scott, Attys., Civil Rights Division, U. S. Dept. of Justice, and Nathan G. Graham, U. S. Atty., with him on the brief), for the United States as amicus curiae.

Before BREITENSTEIN, HILL, and SETH, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

These appeals represent a continuation of the proceedings seeking to desegregate the Oklahoma City schools. This opinion considers principally the appeal in Case No. 191-70, which concerns a proposed system-wide desegregation plan for the junior and senior high schools which was approved by the trial court.

There are also several other appeals pending before this court which concern portions of previous plans of limited application to the same...

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