MITCHELL v. WEST FELICIANA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD

No. 73-4034.

507 F.2d 662 (1975)

Samuel MITCHELL et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. WEST FELICIANA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 30, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Murphy W. Bell, Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Leon A. Picou, Jr., Dist. Atty., 20th Judicial Dist. Court, Fred C. Jackson, Asst. Dist. Atty., St. Francisville, La., Richard H. Kilbourne, Dist. Atty., W. Lee Overton, Asst. Dist. Atty., Clinton, La., for defendants-appellees.

Before GEWIN, AINSWORTH and GEE, Circuit Judges.


GEE, Circuit Judge:

Desegregating the schools of this small, rural Louisiana parish has occupied us before. Its fortunes in our court and in others, from adoption and subsequent disapproval of a freedom-of-choice system through inclusion in Singleton1 and earlier attempts to apply that ruling, are catalogued in Carter v. West Feliciana Parish School Board, 432 F.2d 875<...

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