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UNITED STATES v. STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

No. 76-4398.

567 F.2d 1276 (1978)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The STATE OF MISSISSIPPI et al. (Laurel Municipal Separate School District), Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 1, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Stanley Pottinger, Asst. Atty. Gen., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Thomas M. Keeling, Steven H. Gurwin, Ed. Section, Civil Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Robert E. Hauberg, U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., Brian K. Landsberg, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellant.

William Deavours, Laurel, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before COLEMAN, TJOFLAT, and FAY, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This school desegregation case was orally argued in New Orleans on December 16, 1977. We remand for further proceedings.

The case involves the desegregation of the elementary schools of the Laurel Municipal School District, Laurel, Mississippi.

The most recent order of the District Court discussed in detail the rather extreme physical difficulties involved in the desegregation of these facilities...

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