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GREGORY-PORTLAND IND. SCH. DIST. v. TEX. ED. AGENCY

No. 76-2926.

576 F.2d 81 (1978)

GREGORY-PORTLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY and J. W. Edgar, Defendants, United States of America, Movant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 10, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark L. Gross, Brian K. Landsberg, Civ. Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Edward B. McDonough, Jr., U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., J. Stanley Pottinger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Walter W. Barnett, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for movant-appellant.

Richard A. Hall, J. W. Gary, Corpus Christi, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before GEWIN, GODBOLD and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.

LEWIS R. MORGAN, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal, the United States seeks review of the decision of the district court for the Southern District of Texas denying the government's motion for intervention. Additionally, the government contends that the district court lacked jurisdiction. We hold that the district court should have declined jurisdiction over the case because jurisdiction more properly exists in the Eastern District...

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