UNITED STATES v. DeSOTO PARISH SCH. BD.

No. 76-3471.

574 F.2d 804 (1978)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DeSOTO PARISH SCHOOL BOARD et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 2, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Stanley Pottinger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daniel L. Jennings, Atty., Brian K. Landsberg, Mark L. Gross, Attys., App. Sect., Civ. Rights Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Donald E. Walter, U. S. Atty., Shreveport, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

A. Mills McCawley, Asst. Atty. Gen., Shreveport, La., John F. Ward, Jr., Baton Rouge, La., James L. Davis, Dist. Atty., Many, La., Thomas W. McFerrin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, La., for defendants-appellees.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, MORGAN and GEE, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

In this appeal, we must determine whether the United States is entitled to the additional remedial measures it seeks in this school desegregation suit. Litigation began in January, 1967, when the United States filed a complaint under Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000c-6, to desegregate the public schools in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. The District Court approved a desegregation...

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