TASBY v. ESTES

Nos. 72-1381, 71-2184, 71-2581.

517 F.2d 92 (1975)

Eddie Mitchell TASBY et al., Plaintiff-Appellants, v. Nolan ESTES et al., Defendant-Appellees (two cases). Eddie Mitchell TASBY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, v. Nolan ESTES et al., Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Certiorari Denied November 3, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas R. Larson, Edward B. Cloutman, III, Cleophas R. Steele and George Martinez, Dallas Legal Services Project, Sylvia M. Demarest, Dallas, Tex., Mario G. Obledo and Ed Idar, Jr., Mexican-American Legal Defense, San Antonio, Tex., Melvyn R. Leventhal, Jackson, Miss., John E. Serna, San Antonio, Tex., for Eddie Mitchell Tasby and others. Warren Whitham, Franklin E. Spafford, Mark Martin, Dallas, Tex., for defendant-appellees.

Lee Smith, William C. Dowdy, Jr., Dallas, Tex., for intervenor Donald E. Curry.

James G. Vetter, Jr., Dallas, Tex., for intervenors Citizens of Oak Cliff.

Edwin L. Davis, Dallas, Tex., for intervenor Herman Bond.

N. Alex Bickley, City Atty., Dallas, Tex., for intervenor City of Dallas.

David M. Kendall, Jr., Dallas, Tex., for intervenors Greater Dallas Council of Citizens for Neighborhood Schools.

W. Ted Minick, Dallas, Tex., for intervenor James T. Maxwell.

Larry F. Amerine, James C. Barber, Earl Luna, Dallas, Tex., Kenneth Vaughan, Garland, Tex., amicus curiae for Garland Ind. School Dist.

Before WISDOM, COLEMAN and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied November 3, 1975. See 96 S.Ct. 299.

SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:

These three consolidated appeals require us to evaluate the progress of the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) in eliminating the vestiges of the dual educational system formerly mandated by Texas law. In this task we are guided principally by the teachings of the United States Supreme Court in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 1971,

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