SINGLETON v. JACKSON MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCH. DIST.

No. 71-3520.

509 F.2d 818 (1975)

Derek Jerome SINGLETON et al., Plaintiffs, v. JACKSON MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT, Defendant-Appellee, v. Thomas Arny RHODEN and Honorable Robert A. Biggs, Jr., et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 26, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Heber Ladner, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen. of Miss., William A. Allain, Asst. Atty. Gen., A. F. Summer, Atty. Gen. of Miss., Jackson, Miss., for defendants-appellants.

George P. Hewes, III, Richard W. Dortch, Jackson, Miss., for defendant-appellee.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, and MORGAN and GEE, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge.

In this case, that has now become Singleton VII1 in a controversy spanning eleven and a half years, the litigation concerning the desegregation of the Jackson Municipal Separate School District has now hopefully approached an end.

The present appeal is brought by the state defendants2 from an order of the District Court of October...

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