JENKINS BY AGYEI v. STATE OF MO.

No. 91-1398.

943 F.2d 840 (1991)

Kalima JENKINS, by her friend, Kamau AGYEI, Carolyn Dawson, by her next friend, Richard Dawson, Tufanza A. Byrd, by her next friend, Teresa Byrd, Derek A. Dydell, by his next friend, Maurice Dydell, Terrance Cason, by his next friend, Antoria Cason, Jonathan Wiggins, by his next friend, Rosemary Jacobs Love, Kirk Allan Ward, by his next friend, Mary Ward, Robert M. Hall, by his next friend, Denise Hall, Dwayne A. Turrentine, by his next friend, Shelia Turrentine, Gregory A. Pugh, by his next friend, David Winters, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Appellees, American Federation of Teachers, Local 691, Appellee, v. The STATE OF MISSOURI; Honorable John Ashcroft, Governor of the State of Missouri, Wendell Bailey, Treasurer of the State of Missouri, Missouri State Board of Education: Roseann Bentley, Raymond McCallister, Jr., Susan D. Finke, Thomas R. Davis (Presiding), Gary D. Cunningham, Rebecca M. Cook, Sharon M. Williams, Members of the Missouri, State Board of Education, Robert E. Bartman, Commissioner of Education of the State of Missouri, Appellants, and School District of Kansas City, Missouri, Claude C. Perkins, Superintendent thereof, Appellees, Icelean Clark, Bobby Anderton, Eleanor Graham, John C. Howard, Craig Martin, Gay D. Williams, Kansas City Mantel & Tile Co., Coulas and Griffin Insurance Agency, Inc., Lucille Trimble, Berlau Paper House, Inc., Andrew J. Winningham, Intervenors-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 30, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Fields, Jefferson City, Mo., for appellants.

Kevin Lanigan, Washington, D.C., for appellees.

Arthur Benson, Mark Bredemeier, Kansas City, Mo., for intervenors-appellees.

Before McMILLIAN and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges, and HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge.


JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

The State of Missouri, in the ongoing Kansas City, Missouri, School District litigation, appeals from a district court1 order refusing to require the KCMSD to increase the property tax levy on KCMSD taxpayers. The State argues that the levy must be raised because it is insufficient to allow the KCMSD to pay its current share of desegregation obligations and repay the State for past desegregation obligations...

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