U. S. v. GREGORY-PORTLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST.

No. 80-1943.

654 F.2d 989 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. GREGORY-PORTLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant, v. STATE OF TEXAS, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

August 20, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary, Thomasson, Hall & Marks, Richard A. Hall, Corpus Christi, Tex., for plaintiff-intervenor-appellant.

Joseph D. Rich, Washington, D. C., for United States.

Richard Arnett, Susan Dasher, Nancy N. Lynch, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, Tex., David Young, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before CHARLES CLARK and GEE, Circuit Judges, and SPEARS, District Judge.


GEE, Circuit Judge:

The appellant school district comprises two discrete communities of differing ethnic composition, surrounded and separated by miles of farmland. It is the product of an innocently motivated consolidation of two former districts, each centered on one of the communities. Neither the establishment of the former districts nor their consolidation into the present one was the result of discriminatory state or local action. This appeal presents questions...

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