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PARNELL v. RAPIDES PARISH SCHOOL BD.

No. 76-4176.

563 F.2d 180 (1977)

Thomas R. PARNELL et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross Appellees, v. RAPIDES PARISH SCHOOL BOARD et al., Defendants-Appellees-Cross Appellants, v. Terry L. FARRAR et al., Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied February 3, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley A. Halpin, Jr., New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs-appellants-cross appellees.

John C. Hoyle, Atty., Civil Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., amicus for U. S. A.

James J. Brady, Alexandria, La., for Henry, Lindsay, Matthews & Hathorn.

Richard B. Crowell, Alexandria, La., for other interested parties.

Before WISDOM, GEWIN and AINSWORTH, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied February 3, 1978.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

This is another chapter in the extended story of reapportionment in Rapides Parish, Louisiana. In this class action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the district court found that the apportionment scheme used to select parish school board and police jury members, instituted by a federal court in 1971 in response to an earlier suit, could not legally be maintained. The trial...

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