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U.S. v. OVERTON

Nos. 87-1576, 87-1635.

834 F.2d 1171 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dedra Estell OVERTON, et al., Plaintiffs-Intervenors, Appellants, v. TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Samantha PRICE, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. AUSTIN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 15, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Napoleon B. Williams, Jr., Julius L. Chambers, New York City, for Price, et al.

Norma V. Cantu, Maldef, Albert H. Kauffman, San Antonio, Tex., Antonia Hernandez, E. Richard Larson, Los Angeles, Cal., for Diana Castaneda.

Wm. Bradford Reynolds, Clint Bolick, Dennis J. Dimsey, David K. Flynn, Washington, D.C., for U.S.

William H. Bingham, James R. Raup, McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, Austin, Tex., for Texas Educ. Agency, et al.

Norma Cantu, San Antonio, Tex., Antonia Hernandez, E. Richard Larson, Los Angeles, Cal., for Herrera.

David Van Os, Austin, Tex., for Harrington, amicus.

James Austin Pinedo, Austin, Tex., interested party for United South Austin.

William H. Bingham, James R. Raup, Austin, Tex., for Austin ISD.

Wm. Bradford Reynolds, Clint Bolick, Spec. Asst. Atty. Gen., Civil Rights Div., Dennis J. Dimsey, David K. Flynn, Washington, D.C., for amicus, U.S.

Before WILLIAMS and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges, and BROWN, District Judge.

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

In 1980, after ten years of litigation, the Austin Independent School District consented to a decree contemplating that in three years the school district would be declared unitary and the case dismissed. In July, 1987, some four years after a judicial declaration that the AISD had achieved unitary status, the Overton appellants, Plaintiff-Intervenors in the earlier AISD litigation, requested further relief because AISD allegedly...

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