MENDOZA v. UNITED STATES

No. 78-3352.

623 F.2d 1338 (1980)

Maria MENDOZA, Individually and on behalf of Stephen Mendoza, a Minor; Theresa Trujillo, Individually and on behalf of Albert Trujillo, Joe Trujillo, and David Trujillo, Minors; Alberto Sanchez, Individually and on behalf of Jaime Sanchez, Ana Celis Sanchez, John Sanchez, Ernest Sanchez, George Sanchez, and Betty Sanchez, Minors; and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Julia O. Flores, Billie Gutierrez, Theresa Medina, Betty M. Granillo, Carol Cruz-Popkin, Barney Paul Popkin, Carmen P. Urrutia, Manuel Alvarado, Carolyn Hackworth, Gloria Hagler, Johnny Randolph-Kelly, Thelma B. Manriquez, Aldolfo A. Suarez, Nat Washington II, Ralph O. Gomez, Juan Brito, Marcia Almeda, Emilia Talamantez, Ellen Lee Esperanza Silva, Antonette Romo, Ronald Q. Huerta, and Lupe Montano, Plaintiffs-Objectors-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America. Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee, v. TUCSON SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 1; The Board of Education, Tucson School District Number 1; Leba Wine, Soleng Tom, Mitchell Vavich, Helen Haffley, and Katie Dusenberry, Individually and as members, Board of Education, Tucson School District Number 1; Thomas Lee, Individually and as Superintendent of Tucson School District Number 1, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

As Amended July 9, 1980.

Rehearing Denied August 11, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Armand Salese, Tucson, Ariz. (argued), and Neil P. Miller, Tucson, Ariz., on brief, for plaintiffs-objectors-appellants.

John R. Moore, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-intervenor-appellee.

J. Wm. Brammer, Jr., Tucson, Ariz., argued, for defendants-appellees; William J. Maledon, Phoenix, Ariz., John C. Richardson, Edmund D. Kahn, Tucson, Ariz., Morris J. Baller, San Francisco, Cal., on brief.

Before CHOY and SNEED, Circuit Judges, and EAST, District Judge.


EAST, District Judge.

The plaintiff-objector-appellant Alberto Sanchez, appearing individually and on behalf of his above-named minors, appeals the District Court's orders entered on August 11, 1978, which approved a submitted plan of desegregation, and August 31, 1978, which approved the settlement arrangement for desegregation of the Tucson School District No. 1. He also appeals the District Court's order of August 11, 1978, which denied the certification of a subclass...

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