N. A. A. C. P. v. LANSING BD. OF ED.

No. 76-1267.

559 F.2d 1042 (1977)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR the ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, Lansing Branch, Cynthia Taylor, Judith Taylor and Andrea Taylor, by their father and Next Friend, James R. Taylor, Melinda Lea Hedley, Christine Michele Hedley, Douglas John Hedley and Daniel Joseph Hedley, by their mother and Next Friend, Joan L. Hedley, Peter Miller and Elizabeth Miller, by their father and Next Friend, Charles Miller, Frank J. Pennoni and James Pennoni, by their mother and Next Friend, Kathleen Pennoni, and David Kron and Lisa Kron, by their father and Next Friend, Walter V. Kron, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. LANSING BOARD OF EDUCATION, a body corporate, and Members of the Lansing Board of Education, viz., Vernon D. Ebersole, Clare D. Harrington, Michael F. Walsh, Ray A. Hannula, Joan Hess, J. C. Williams, Bruce Angell, Joseph E. Hobrla and Max D. Shunk, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided July 26, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred C. Newman, Newman & Mackay, Lansing, Mich., for defendants-appellants.

John W. Davis, Lansing, Mich., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before CELEBREZZE, PECK and LIVELY, Circuit Judges.


CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judge.

The Board of Education and its individual members appeal from a finding of liability in a suit brought to desegregate public elementary schools in Lansing, Michigan. The suit was brought as a class action by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and by children and parents of children who are elementary students in the Lansing school system. Chief Judge Noel P....

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