AYERS v. ALLAIN

No. 88-4103.

893 F.2d 732 (1990)

Jake AYERS, Sr., et al., Plaintiffs, Jake Ayers, Jr., Bennie G. Thompson, Leola Blackmon, Lillie Blackmon, Louis Armstrong, Darryl C. Thomas and Leon Johnson, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and United States of America, Intervenor-Appellant, v. William ALLAIN, Governor, State of Mississippi, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 6, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Pressman, Center for Law & Educ., Cambridge, Mass., Alvin O. Chambliss, Jr., Oxford, Miss., for Ayers, et al.

Linda F. Thome, Jessica Dunsay Silver, Nathaniel Douglas, John R. Moore, Levern M. Younger, Franz R. Marshall, and Zita Johnson-Betts, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Rights Div., Educ., Opportunities Litigation, Sec., Washington, D.C., for the U.S.

Mike Moore, Atty. Gen., Paul Stephenson, William F. Goodman, Jr., Ed Davis Noble, Jr., Jackson, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before GOLDBERG, JOHNSON and DUHÉ, Circuit Judges.


GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

"`The time has come,' the Walrus said, `To talk of many things:

Of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax — Of Cabbages — and kings —

And why the sea is boiling hot — and whether pigs have wings.'"1

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