GREENHOUSE v. GRECO

No. 75-2050.

544 F.2d 1302 (1977)

David GREENHOUSE et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Most Reverend Charles Pascal GRECO et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 11, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph R. Cooney, University Legal Serv., Washington, D.C., J. Harold Flannery, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C., Merle McClung, Harvard Center for Law & Education, Cambridge, Mass., George M. Strickler, Jr., New Orleans, La., Benjamin P. Lamberton, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Camille F. Gravel, Jr., Dan E. Melichar, Alexandria, La., for Greco, Wakeman, and others.

Marc Dupuy, Jr., Marksville, La., for Presentation Sch. Bd.

Donald E. Walter, U.S. Atty., Shreveport, La., Thomas Boerschinger, Dept. of Justice, Tax Div., Washington, D.C., for Connally, Walters, and others.

Scott P. Crampton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tax Div., Gilbert E. Andrews, Chief, Appellate Sec., Leonard J. Henzke, Jr., Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Secretary of the Treasury & Comm. of Internal Revenue.

Brian K. Landsberg, Miriam R. Eisenstein, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Washington, D.C., for Dept. of H.E.W. Secretary.

William S. Estabrook, III, Atty., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Secretary of the Treasury and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

Before JONES, WISDOM and GODBOLD, Circuit Judges.


GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

This case is in a procedural snarl that involves not mere niceties but the jurisdiction of this court. We remand to the district court with directions.

Plaintiffs' suit attempted to assert a class action for the purpose of ending alleged segregation and other racially discriminatory practices in the parochial schools in the Roman Catholic diocese of Alexandria, Louisiana. The diocese extends...

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