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UNITED STATES v. STATE OF LOUISIANA

No. 74-3856.

543 F.2d 1125 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. STATE OF LOUISIANA et al., Defendants-Appellees, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People of Louisiana and Emmitt J. Douglas, President, Movants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 13, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Williams, Baton Rouge, La., Nathaniel R. Jones, New York City, for movants-appellants.

William Shelby McKenzie, Baton Rouge, La., for LSU Board of Supervisors.

William B. Saxbe, Atty. Gen., Thomas M. Keeling, John H. Newman, Ross L. Connealy, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Douglas M. Gonzalez, U. S. Atty., Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, and GOLDBERG and RONEY, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

This appeal is taken from an order of a three-judge district court denying a motion to intervene by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Emmitt J. Douglas President of the Louisiana Conference of NAACP Branches in a civil rights suit brought by the United States against the State of Louisiana. We hold that the order of the three-judge court is appealable to the Court of Appeals, and we remand for a hearing...

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