LAU v. NICHOLS

No. 26155.

483 F.2d 791 (1973)

Kinney Kinmon LAU, a Minor by and through Mrs. Kam Wai Lau, his Guardian ad Litem et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants. v. Alan H. NICHOLS, President et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 18, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward H. Steinman (argued), of Youth Law Center, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Marian Wright Edelman, Director, Roger L. Rice, Staff Atty., Center for Law and Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., amicus curiae for plaintiffs-appellants.

Thomas M. O'Conner, City Atty. (argued), Raymond D. Williamson, Deputy City Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

John D. Leshy, Atty. (argued), James L. Browning, U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., David D. Gregory, Joseph B. Scott, Brian K. Landsberg, Attys., David L. Norman, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Jerris Leonard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., amicus curiae for appellee.

Marian Wright Edelman, Director, Roger L. Rice, Staff Atty., Cambridge, Mass., amicus curiae for the appellant.

Before CHAMBERS and TRASK, Circuit Judges, and HILL, District Judge.


Rehearing En Banc Denied June 18, 1973.

TRASK, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from the district court's adverse disposition of a civil rights class action filed by appellants to compel the San Francisco Unified School District to provide all non-English-speaking Chinese students attending District schools with bilingual compensatory education in the English language. The defendants-appellees are the superintendent and members of the Board of Education of the...

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