TASBY v. ESTES

No. 79-3465.

643 F.2d 1103 (1981)

Eddie Mitchell TASBY and Phillip Wayne Tasby, by their parent and next friend, Sam Tasby et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Dr. Nolan ESTES et al. and Highland Park Independent School District et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A.

April 27, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward B. Cloutman, III, Thomas E. Ashton, III, Dallas Legal Services Foundation, Inc., Dallas, Tex., Thomas I. Atkins, Gen. Counsel, NAACP Special Contribution Fund, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Spafford, Gay & Whitham, Warren Whitham, Samuel J. Ferro, Jr., Strasburger & Price, Mark Martin, Dallas, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before AINSWORTH, CHARLES CLARK and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


CHARLES CLARK, Circuit Judge:

This case is another in a long series of legal proceedings related to the process of desegregation in the Dallas Independent School District (DISD). The plaintiffs are parents of black children attending school in the DISD. They claim that the school district's student disciplinary policies and practices discriminate against black students and violate due process guarantees. The district court found that the plaintiffs' evidence did not...

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