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ROSS v. HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST.

No. 81-2323.

699 F.2d 218 (1983)

Delores ROSS, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 16, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Weldon H. Berry, Houston, Tex., Jack Greenberg, Bill Lann Lee, James M. Nabrit, III, Lowell Johnston, New York City, for Ross, et al.

Bracewell & Patterson, William Key Wilde, Kelly Frels, Timothy T. Cooper, Houston, Tex., for Houston Ind. School.

Irving Gornstein, Washington, D.C., for U.S.A.

Before RUBIN and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges, and DUPLANTIER, District Judge.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

In 1956, two years after the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686, 98 L.Ed.2d 873 (1954) (Brown I), a group of parents of black children enrolled in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) filed this suit to desegregate its schools. After twenty-five years of court proceedings and twelve years of operation under a court-ordered desegregation...

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