L.A. BRANCH NAACP v. L.A. UNIFIED SCHOOL DIST.

No. 81-5936.

714 F.2d 946 (1983)

LOS ANGELES BRANCH NAACP, Beverly Hills-Hollywood NAACP, San Pedro-Wilmington NAACP, Watts NAACP, San Fernando Valley NAACP and Carson NAACP, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., Defendants, and California State Department of Education, Bill Honig, Superintendent of Public Instruction, in his official capacity, and George Deukmejian, Governor, in his official capacity, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 1, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Graham Cohn, NAACP, Eva Jefferson Paterson, San Francisco, Cal., Nancy B. Reardan, Sacramento, Cal., William Robinson, Norman Chachkin, Washington, D.C., Thomas I. Atkins, Brooklyn, N.Y., Teresa Demchak, Margrett Ford, New York City, Joseph H. Duff, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants.

G.R. Overton and Scott Rasmussen, Deputy Attys. Gen., Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Before ELY, GOODWIN and SNEED, Circuit Judges.


SNEED, Circuit Judge:

The NAACP brought this class action against the California State Department of Education, the California State Board of Education, the California Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the Governor of California. The NAACP alleged that these state entities and officials, along with a group of local defendants,1 had created and maintained an unconstitutionally segregated...

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