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UNITED STATES v. LAWRENCE COUNTY SCHOOL DIST.

No. 86-4047.

799 F.2d 1031 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, Sheanda Bryant, et al., Intervenors-Appellants, Cross-Appellees, v. LAWRENCE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 15, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Suzanne Griggins, Mendenhall, Miss., for intervenors-appellants, cross-appellees.

Frank D. Allen, Jr., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Appellate Sec., Civil Div., Washington, D.C., Kenneth Rutherford, Jackson, Miss., Wm. Bradford Reynolds, Brian K. Landsberg, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Appellate Sec., Civil Div., Washington, D.C., Dale F. Schwindaman, Jackson, Miss., Malcolm Rogers, Monticello, Miss., for defendants-appellees, cross-appellants.

Jeanne Pettanati, Educational Opportunities Litigation Section, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for other interested parties.

Before WISDOM, RUBIN, and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

A school board that had unconstitutionally segregated students by race was ordered by this court in 1969 to desegregate in accordance with a plan incorporated into this court's decree. After the case had been remanded to the district court, the school board violated some of the terms of the desegregation order. The key issues are whether the school system has previously been declared unitary in the sense of being desegregated, and, if...

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