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FAMILIAS UNIDAS v. BRISCOE

No. 75-1205.

544 F.2d 182 (1976)

FAMILIAS UNIDAS, an Unincorporated Association and Irma Torrez, etc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Dolph BRISCOE, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Governor of the State of Texas, Jerome H. Decker, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Medina County Judge, Kenneth Florey, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of Schools of the Hondo Independent School District, and E. J. Leinweber, Jr., Glen McWilliams, Jack Been, Dr. J. E. Sandusky, Milton Renken, Lloyd Hardt, and Henry Dominguez, Individually and in Their Official Capacities as Members of the Board of Trustees of the Hondo Independent School District, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 16, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia Vasquez, San Antonio, Tex., Vilma S. Martinez, Mexican American Legal Defense & Ed. Fund, Sanford J. Rosen, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants.

John L. Hill, Atty. Gen., William C. Bednar, Jr., J. C. Davis, Asst. Attys. Gen., David M. Kendall, Jr., First Asst. Atty. Gen., John W. Odam, Jr., Executive Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for Dolph Briscoe.

J. C. Heinsley, Austin, Tex., for Kenneth Flory and Hondo Ind. School Dist. Bd. of Trustees.

Emerson Banack, Jr., San Antonio, Tex., for Jerome Decker.

Before THORNBERRY and AINSWORTH, Circuit Judges, and HOFFMAN, District Judge.

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge:

In an appeal from the Western District of Texas, appellants originally sought relief at law and in equity, as well as statutory relief, to safeguard certain constitutional rights they alleged were violated and deprived by appellees. The case comes to us with no decision on the merits, save denials of both a temporary restraining order and a request to convene a three-judge district court.

The lower court granted appellees...

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