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LEMON v. BOSSIER PARISH SCHOOL BOARD

No. 71-2523.

446 F.2d 911 (1971)

Ura Bernard LEMON et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. BOSSIER PARISH SCHOOL BOARD et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 24, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margrett Ford, Jack Greenberg, Norman J. Chachkin, New York City, A. P. Tureaud, New Orleans, La., Jesse Stone, Jr., Shreveport, La., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Edward S. Christenbury, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Donald E. Walter, U. S. Atty., Shreveport, La., John B. Benton, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Minden, La., Arthur M. Wallace, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Benton, La., for defendants-appellees.

Before GEWIN and GOLDBERG, Circuit Judges.

BY THE COURT:

In reviewing the chronology and judicial peregrinations of this case, we feel compelled to suggest that the trial court not enter any order that will further impede or delay the absolute requirement that the dual system be eliminated, root and branch, here and now. New sprouts permitting freedom of choice of schools, classes, and subjects, which might even remotely tend to perpetuate segregation, must not be allowed to bud. To this end

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