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UNITED STATES v. CRUCIAL

No. 82-1444.

722 F.2d 1182 (1983)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CRUCIAL, et al., Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellants, WEST ODESSA PARENTS FOR QUALITY NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS, et al., Movants-Appellants, v. ECTOR COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 29, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norma V. Cantu, MALDEF, Jose Garza, Judith A. Sanders-Castro, Jose Roberto Juarez, Jr., San Antonio, Tex., Joaquin G. Avila, Morris J. Baller, San Francisco, Cal., for CRUCIAL, et al.

J. Harvie Wilkinson, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Wm. Bradford Reynolds, Walter W. Barnett, Marie E. Klimesz, Civil Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the United States.

McMahon, Cox, Todd, Tidwell, Locke, Robert B. Cox, Jack Q. Tidwell, Odessa, Tex., Kelly Frels, Houston, Tex., for Ector County Independent School Dist.

Eskew, Muir & Bednar, William C. Bednar, Jr., Austin, Tex., for West Odessa PQNS.

Before RANDALL, JOHNSON and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

RANDALL, Circuit Judge:

Ector County Independent School District is a county-wide school district encompassing all of Ector County, Texas, and including the City of Odessa. A railroad track divides the northern and southern sections of Odessa. The black and hispanic populations are concentrated in south Odessa.

During the period between 1968 and 1982, when formerly de jure dual school systems (such as Ector County ISD) were charged under Brown v...

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