HIGGINS v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS

No. 73-2198.

508 F.2d 779 (1974)

George and Carolyn HIGGINS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

December 6, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis R. Lucas, Ratner, Sugarmon & Lucas, Memphis, Tenn., Nathaniel Jones, New York City, Stuart J. Dunnings, Jr., Dunnings & Gibson, Lansing, Mich., Paul R. Dimond, O'Brien, Moran & Dimond, Ann Arbor, Mich., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Frank J. Kelley, Atty. Gen. of Mich., Robert Derengoski, Lansing, Mich., Eugene Krasicky, Gerald Young, Thomas F. Schimpf, Lansing, Mich., Roger D. Anderson, McDonald, Anderson & Swets, Harold S. Sawyer, Kent J. Vana, Benham R. Wrigley, Jr., Grand Rapids, Mich., Edmond R. Wolven, Rockford, Mich., James M. Catchick, Grand Rapids, Mich., George E. Bushnell, Jr., Gregory L. Curtner, Detroit, Mich., John D. Tully, Grant J. Gruel, James A. Engbers, Eugene Alkema, Peter Armstrong, Grand Rapids, Mich., for defendants-appellees.

Before WEICK, MILLER and LIVELY, Circuit Judges.


WILLIAM E. MILLER, Circuit Judge.

This school desegregation case was initiated in 1970 as a class action by black students and their parents against the Grand Rapids Board of Education.1 Upon motion of the defendant, the court ordered the joinder of 11 suburban school districts to afford them a complete hearing on all issues in the event inter-district bussing was to be decreed.2 Certain state defendants were...

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