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NORTHCROSS v. BOARD OF ED. OF MEMPHIS CITY SCHOOLS

Nos. 73-1667, 73-1954.

489 F.2d 15 (1973)

Deborah A. NORTHCROSS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the MEMPHIS CITY SCHOOLS et al., and City of Memphis et al., Defendants-Appellees. Deborah A. NORTHCROSS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the MEMPHIS CITY SCHOOLS et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided December 4, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman J. Chachkin, New York City, and William E. Caldwell, Memphis, Tenn., for Deborah A. Northcross; Louis R. Lucas, Elijah Noel, Jr., Ratner, Sugarmon & Lucas, Memphis, Tenn., Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, New York City, on briefs.

Ernest G. Kelly, Jr., Evans, Petree, Cobb & Edwards, Memphis, Tenn., for Bd. of Ed. of the Memphis City Schools.

Frierson M. Graves, Jr., City Atty., Memphis, Tenn., for City of Memphis and others.

Before WEICK, CELEBREZZE and PECK, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

This appeal was perfected from the Memorandum Decision and order handed down by the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee on May 3, 1973, ordering the implementation of a plan intended to complete the desegregation process in Memphis. Appellants assert that the plan approved by the District Court does not achieve the degree of desegregation demanded by the Constitution and recent Supreme...

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