UNITED STATES v. HINDS COUNTY SCHOOL BD.

Nos. 28030, 28042.

560 F.2d 619 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HINDS COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD et al., Defendants-Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMITE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 21, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Greenberg, Melvyn R. Levanthal, New York City, Fred L. Banks, Jr., Jackson, Miss., J. Stanley Pottinger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civ. Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Thomas M. Keeling, Jeremiah Glassman, Civ. Rights Div., Education Sect., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Thomas H. Watkins, Jackson, Miss., H. Bradford Miller, Liberty, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before THORNBERRY, MORGAN and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


CHARLES CLARK, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff, the United States of America, appeals from the district court's recommendation to this court that defendant, Amite County School District, be permitted to maintain a sex-segregated student assignment plan among the four schools which comprise the district. The recommendation of the district court was based on its findings that Amite County's assignment plan resulted from sound educational purposes as opposed to racially discriminatory...

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