UNITED STATES v. STATE OF TEX.

Civ. A. No. 5281.

628 F.Supp. 304 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, Lulac, Gi Forum, and NAACP, Plaintiffs-Intervenors, Leslie Dugas, Jr., Clevin Giles, Elaine Hudson, Dietrick Mays, Ernestine Randall, William Traylor, and Kimberly Wilson, Nelda Elizalde, Marianela Gonzalez, Aurora Gutierrez, Genoveva Marmodejo, Oralia Martinez, Irene Rael and Linda Reyes, Applicants for Intervention, v. STATE OF TEXAS, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Texas, Tyler Division.

August 27, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin O'Hanlon and Robert Sinderman, Asst. Attys. Gen., State of Tex., Austin, Tex., Howard P. Willens and Bruce M. Berman, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., for defendants.

Stanford Von Mayrhauser and Joan Allen, Princeton, N.J., for Educational Testing Service.

Jeremiah Glassman and Joseph Rich, Civil Rights Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for U.S.

Roger Rice and Camilo Perez-Bustillo, META Project, Cambridge, Mass., Albert Kauffman, Norma V. Cantu and Jose Roberto Juarez, Jr., Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, San Antonio, Tex., Audrey Little, Asst. Gen. Counsel, NAACP-Special Contribution Fund, Brooklyn, N.Y., Richard Dockery, NAACP, Dallas, Tex., Larry R. Daves, Tyler, Tex., for plaintiff intervenors Lulac, G.I. Forum and NAACP.


JUSTICE, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff-intervenors1 and the applicants for intervention ("applicants")2 seek a preliminary injunction to restrain the State of Texas, acting by and through the Texas Education Agency ("TEA"), from excluding students who fail the Pre-Professional Skills Test ("PPST") from enrollment in teacher education courses at colleges and universities in Texas.

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