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UNITED STATES v. STATE OF MISS.

Civ. A. No. 4706.

622 F.Supp. 622 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, and Zandra Pittman, minor child, by her parents and next friends, Andrew and Patricia Pittman; Geneva Harrell and Jimmy Harrell, Jr., minor children, by their parents and next friends, Jimmie and Rose Mary Harrell, et al., Plaintiffs-Intervenors, v. The STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, et al., Defendants, and Hattiesburg Municipal Separate School District, Defendant-Intervenors.

United States District Court, S.D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

October 21, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nausead Stewart, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs-intervenors.

Salliann S.M. Dougherty, Educational Opportunities Litigation Section, Civil Rights Div. (Main J), Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.

Edwin L. Pittman, Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., Moran M. Pope, Jr., Hattiesburg, Miss., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

TOM S. LEE, District Judge.

On July 9, 1970, the United States initiated this action by bringing suit, pursuant to section 407 of Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000c-6, against the State of Mississippi, alleging the unlawful operation of a racially dual system of public education in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Hattiesburg Municipal Separate School District...

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