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HARKLESS v. SWEENY INDEPENDENT SCH. DIST., ETC.

No. 79-1800 Summary Calendar.

608 F.2d 594 (1979)

Mildred HARKLESS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. The SWEENY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, SWEENY, TEXAS, et al., Defendants. The Sweeny Independent School District, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 19, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grant Cook, Houston, Tex., for defendant-appellant.

Weldon H. Berry, Houston, Tex., James M. Nabrit, III, Patrick O. Patterson, New York City, Mark T. McDonald, Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before GEE, HENDERSON and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges.

HENDERSON, Circuit Judge:

In 1966, several black school teachers, including the appellees, filed suit against the appellants, Sweeny Independent School District and several of its officials (hereinafter referred to as "the School District"), charging racial discrimination in the School District's decision not to rehire them for the 1966-67 school year, the first in which the School District desegregated its schools. In this last chapter of a long

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