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BROUSSARD v. PEREZ

Civ. A. No. 76-158.

416 F.Supp. 584 (1976)

Merlis J. BROUSSARD and Ernest Johnson v. Challin Octave PEREZ et al.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana.

July 6, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley A. Halpin, Jr., New Orleans, La., Joseph E. Defley, Jr., Port Sulphur, La., for plaintiffs.

Gerald W. Jones, John P. MacCoon, J. Stanley Pottinger, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Gerald J. Gallinghouse, U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., for the U. S., plaintiff-intervenor.

Sidney W. Provensal, Jr., Provensal & Fitzmaurice, New Orleans, La., for the Plaquemines Parish School Board and its individual members.

Luke A. Petrovich, Buras, La., for the Plaquemines Parish Commission Council and its individual members.

HEEBE, Chief Judge:

Plaintiffs bring this class action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, § 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. § 1973c, and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. Jurisdiction is conferred on this Court by 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3). Plaintiffs and defendants have filed summary judgment motions on the issues concerning the Plaquemines Parish School Board.

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