DORIS v. MONTGOMERY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION

Nos. 29125, 29126.

426 F.2d 249 (1970)

Walter DORIS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MONTGOMERY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants-Appellees. Walter DORIS et al., Proposed Intervenors-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, and Montgomery County Board of Education et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 8, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Maxey, II, Holly Springs, Miss., Kent Spriggs, Oxford, Miss., John McCreery, Alix Sanders, Greenwood, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Murray William, Water Valley, Miss., Will S. Wells, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., H. M. Ray, U. S. Atty., Oxford, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before BELL, AINSWORTH and GODBOLD, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

We dispose of these cases as extraordinary matters. Rule 2, F.R.A.P.

No. 29126 is an appeal from the denial by the District Court of a petition to intervene in a school desegregation case brought by the Attorney General under 42 U.S.C. § 2000c-6.

The District Judge denied the petition, stating that he expected the issue of the propriety of intervention to be controlled by the decision in one of the Greenwood, Mississippi, cases then...

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