UNITED STATES v. BD. OF EDUC. OF JACKSON COUNTY

No. 85-8777.

794 F.2d 1541 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF JACKSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, et al., Defendants-Appellees, The Board of Education of the City of Jefferson, Georgia, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 28, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam S. Harben, Jr., Gainesville, Ga., for defendants-appellants.

Louise A. Lerner, W. Bradford Reynolds, Brian K. Landsberg, Educational Opportunities Litigation Section, Civ. Rights Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Leonard Lewellen, Jefferson, Ga., for Jackson County.

Before VANCE and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges, and ALLGOOD, Senior District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

The Jackson County Board of Education (Jackson) in 1980 sought dismissal by the district court of a desegregation case and vacation of a related 1969 desegregation order. It also sought to vacate a resulting 1970 order requiring Jackson to pass a resolution reassigning all students in the affected area to Jefferson City (Jefferson) schools for a period of twenty years. At the end of a three year period during which both districts remained unitary, the...

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