LIDDELL v. BD. OF EDUC. OF CITY OF ST. LOUIS, MO.

No. 88-2034.

873 F.2d 191 (1989)

Craton LIDDELL, et al. v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, et al. Michael C. and Kendra LIDDELL, minors by Minnie Liddell, their mother and next friend; and Minnie Liddell; Roderick D. LeGrand, a minor, by Lois LeGrand, his mother and next friend; and Lois LeGrand; Clodis Yarber, a minor, by Samuel Yarber, his father and next friend; and Samuel Yarber, Appellees, Earline Caldwell; Lillie Mae Caldwell; and Gwendolyn Daniels; and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Appellees, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF ST. LOUIS; Dr. M. Thomas, Penelope Alcott, Thomas Bugel, Eddie Davis, Louis Fister, Richard Gaines, John P. Mahoney, Marjorie Smith, Dorothy Springer, Shirley Kiel, Rev. Earl Nance, Jr., and Douglas Rush; Julius C. Dix, David J. Mahan, and Anne E. Price, Associate Superintendents; Dr. Jerome B. Jones, Superintendent; in their official capacities, Appellees, The State of Missouri; John Ashcroft, Governor; William L. Webster, Attorney General; Wendell Bailey, Treasurer; John A. Pelzer, Commissioner of Administration; Dr. Robert Bartman, Commissioner of Education; The State Board of Education; and its Members: Roseann Bentley, Dan L. Blackwell, Thomas R. Davis, Susan D. Finke, Raymond F. McCallister, Jr., Cynthia B. Thompson, Terry A. Bond, and Roger A. Tolliver, Appellants, The Affton Board of Education; The Bayless Board of Education; The Brentwood Board of Education; The Clayton Board of Education; The Hancock Place Board of Education; The Hazelwood Board of Education; The Jennings Board of Education; The Kirkwood Board of Education; The Ladue Board of Education; The Lindbergh Board of Education; The Mehlville Board of Education; The Normandy Board of Education; The Pattonville Board of Education; The Ritenour Board of Education; The Rockwood Board of Education; The Valley Park Board of Education; The Webster Groves Board of Education, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 21, 1989.

Rehearing Denied May 31, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Presson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Mo., for appellants.

William Taylor, Washington, D.C., Stephen Cooper, John Gianoulakis, and James Erwin, St. Louis, Mo., for appellees.

Before HEANEY and FAGG, Circuit Judges, and REASONER, District Judge.


FAGG, Circuit Judge.

The State of Missouri appeals the district court's order clarifying the extent of Missouri's funding obligation for interdistrict student transfers in the St. Louis school desegregation case. See Liddell v. Board of Educ., 686 F.Supp. 235 (E.D.Mo.1988). We reverse in part and affirm in part.

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