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UNITED STATES v. TEXAS ED. AGENCY

No. 73-3301.

579 F.2d 910 (1978)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, Dedra Estell Overton et al., Intervenors-Appellants, v. TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY et al. (Austin Independent School District), Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 7, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mario Obledo, MALDEF, Sanford Rosen, San Francisco, Cal., Jim Heidelberg, San Antonio, Tex., Gabriel Gutierrez, Jr., Samuel T. Biscoe, Austin, Tex., Jack Greenberg, Melvyn R. Leventhal, Kellis E. Parker, Sylvia Drew, Bill Lann Lee, New York City, for Dedra Estell Overton, et al.

William S. Sessions, U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., Linda Hanten, Peter D. Roos, Attys., San Francisco, Cal., for Mexican-American intervenors.

John L. Hill, Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., Brian K. Landsberg, Joseph D. Rich, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Donald S. Thomas, Austin, Tex., William H. Bingham, Austin, Tex., for Austin Independent School Dist.

Before WISDOM, COLEMAN, and TJOFLAT, Circuit Judges.

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING AND PETITION FOR REHEARING EN BANC

(Opinion November 21, 1977, 5 Cir. 1977, 564 F.2d 162).

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

Seven years ago, seventeen years after Brown,1 the Attorney General of the United States initiated this tri-ethnic school desegregation suit under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000c-6. Nothing was being done in Austin to...

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