GORDON v. JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD

No. 10902.

330 F.Supp. 1119 (1971)

Marcus GORDON et al. v. JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD et al.

United States District Court, W. D. Louisiana, Lake Charles Division.

July 22, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. P. Tureaud, New Orleans, La., Margrett Ford, Legal Defense Fund, Harvey J. Goldschmid and Peter E. Quint, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Bernard N. Marcantel, Dist. Atty., Jennings, La., for defendants.


EDWIN F. HUNTER, Jr., District Judge:

The target of Supreme Court and Fifth Circuit cases from Brown I to the present has been the dual system. Jefferson Davis Parish has uprooted that system "root and branch". Concededly the system is unitary.1 There has been no abandonment, no fragmentation.

The case was remanded on June 28, 1971, 5 Cir., 446 F.2d 266:

"* * * with directions for the...

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