Rita Sanders GEIER, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees,
United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant,
Raymond A. Richardson, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellees,
H. Coleman McGinnis, et al., Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellees,
v.
Lamar ALEXANDER, et al., Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued July 17, 1986.
Decided September 5, 1986.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Michael A. Carvin (argued), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Joe B. Brown, U.S. Atty., Nashville, Tenn., Miriam Eisenstein, (Lead), George Schneider, Nathaniel Douglas, Lavern M. Younger, General Litigation Section, Civil Rights Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Walter W. Barnett, Appellate Section, for U.S., plaintiff-intervenor-appellant.
W.J. Michael Cody (argued), Atty. Gen. of Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee, R. Stephen Doughty & Richard Colber, for State defendant.
George E. Barrett, Barrett and Ray, Nashville, Tenn., for Rita S. Geier.
Avon N. Williams, Jr., Richard Dinkins, Nashville, Tenn., Joel Berger, (Lead) argued, Legal Defense Fund, Theodore M. Shaw, Julius LeVonne Chambers, New York City, for Raymond Richardson, et al.
John Norris, Hollins, Wagster and Yarbrough, Nashville, Tenn., for H. Coleman McGinnis, et al.
Julian W. Blackshear, Jr., Robert Smith, Petway and Blackshear, Nashville, Tenn., for amicus curiae TSU Nat. Alumni Ass'n.
Beauchamp Brogan, University of Tennessee, James W. Drinnon, Jr., Assistant General Counsel, Administrative Building, Knoxville, Tenn., for defendants-appellees.
Lewis Laska, Associate Professor, School of Business, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tenn., pro se.
Robert Greene, Lead Counsel, Nashville, Tenn., for Tennessee State Nat. Alumni
Before LIVELY, Chief Judge, MILBURN, Circuit Judge, and PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
LIVELY, Chief Judge.
The United States, an intervenor in an action seeking desegregation of public institutions of higher learning in Tennessee, appeals from a consent decree containing affirmative action provisions. The original plaintiffs, intervening individual plaintiffs, and their successors and the State of Tennessee defendants signed the consent decree and agreed to its entry. Of the parties remaining in the case after more than 15 years of litigation, only...
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