HOOTS v. COM. OF PA.

No. 82-5342.

703 F.2d 722 (1983)

Dorothy HOOTS, individually and as mother of her children, Janelle Hoots and Jamie Hoots; Mrs. Addrallace Knight, individually and as mother and natural guardian of her children Ronald Knight, Loretta Knight, Terrance Knight, Marc Knight and Byron Knight; Barbara Smith, individually and as mother and natural guardian of her children Tawanda Smith, Tevela Smith, Joseph Smith, Wesley Smith and Eric Smith; on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated Mae Helen Woody, Juanita Jordan v. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA; Edward X. Hallenberg, President of the Allegheny County Board of School Directors; the Allegheny County Board of School Directors; W. Deming Lewis, Chairman of the Pennsylvania State Board of Education; Michael Sullivan, President of the School District of the Borough of Braddock; The School District of the Borough of Braddock; Andrew Lisyak, President of the School Board of Rankin; the School District of the Borough of Rankin; Leo Campbell, President of the School Board of the School District of the Borough of North Braddock; and the School District of the Borough of North Braddock; the Allegheny Intermediate Unit Board of School Directors; and Edward X. Hallenberg As President of the Allegheny Intermediate Board of School Directors, Churchill Area School District, Edgewood School District, Swissvale Area School District, Turtle Creek Area School District. Appeal of BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS OF The WOODLAND HILLS SCHOOL DISTRICT.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided March 28, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Rutter, Jr. (argued), Patrick J. Clair, Goehring, Rutter & Boehm, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellant.

Thomas J. Henderson (argued), Pittsburgh, Pa., Jack Greenberg, Bill Lann Lee, James S. Liebman, New York City, for appellees, Dorothy Hoots, et al.

Before SEITZ, Chief Judge, and WEIS and BECKER, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM.

We are advised by the parties in this protracted school desegregation litigation that this eighth appeal on the merits, the sixth in two years, will be known as Hoots XIV.1 Although many of these appeals have been preliminary skirmishes, this appeal, like Hoots v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 672 F.2d 1107

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