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WRIGHT v. HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST.

No. 76-1017.

569 F.2d 1383 (1978)

Mrs. Vella WRIGHT and Miss Saora Myers, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 27, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelly Frels, Charles E. DeWitt, Jr., Houston, Tex., for defendant-appellant.

Larry Watts, Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before WISDOM and GEE, Circuit Judges, and VAN PELT, District Judge.

GEE, Circuit Judge:

This cause presents a single, dispositive issue. It is whether the Singleton1 requirement—that nonracial objective criteria be developed and employed in selecting among the staff of a given school district those of its professional staff who are to be demoted or dismissed in the event of a general reduction in force occasioned by desegregation—applies...

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