DAVIS v. EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCH. BD.

No. 75-3610.

570 F.2d 1260 (1978)

Clifford Eugene DAVIS, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs, Dr. D'Orsay Bryant and Alphonso O. Potter, Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellants, v. EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 25, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Williams, Murphy W. Bell, Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiffs-intervenors-appellants.

John F. Ward, Jr., Baton Rouge, La., for defendants-appellees.

Before COLEMAN, TJOFLAT, and FAY, Circuit Judges.


TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

In the proceedings below, the district court found that the East Baton Rouge Parish school system is a unitary system being operated on a nondiscriminatory basis and dismissed this case with prejudice. The intervenors appeal from the district court's order; they claim that the school system is not and never has been unitary.1

Like so many school desegregation suits in this circuit, this case has been in...

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