U.S. v. CHARLESTON COUNTY SCHOOL DIST.

Nos. 90-1812, 90-1816.

960 F.2d 1227 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Richard Ganaway, II, a minor, by his father and next friend, Richard Ganaway; Renee Gasden, a minor, by her father and next friend, Raymond Gasden; Tarsha Lucas, a minor, by her mother and next friend, Catherine Williams; Stacy Brown, a minor; Rotissa Renee Brown, a minor; Uganda Brown, a minor by their mother and next friend, Louise Brown; Mitchelle Buggs, a minor; Charlton Ancrum, a minor, by their father and next friend, Henry Vernon; Bernard Simmons; a minor, by his mother and next friend, Idell Simmons; David Bonneau; Annette Bonneau, a minor; Sharon Bonneau, a minor, by their mother and next friend Lorraine Bonneau; Mona Lisa Lockhart, a minor; Dexter Smith, a minor; and Lichelle Lockhart, a minor, by their mother and next friend, Marthenia D. Lockhart; black school children attending Charleston County public school represented by their parents, Plaintiffs, v. CHARLESTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT; State of South Carolina; Charlie G. Williams, Superintendent, State Board of Education; Abraham Funchess; Joseph D. Parker; R.B. Gentry; T.C. Kistler; John R. Stevenson; Lucy B. Hayes; Creighton G. Edwards; Joyce Wimmer; Howard F. Burkey; Jack F. McIntosh; Robert E. Livingston; Jessie B. Schoolfield; W. Buford Estes; Louis O. Dore; Anne K. Collins; Wilbur F. Smith, Jr.; Dolphus Carter, as members of the State Board of Education; Richard W. Riley, Governor and Chairman; Thomas G. Mangum; Marion Gressette; Earl Morris; Grady Patterson, as members of the State Budget and Control Board, Defendants-Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, and Richard Ganaway, II, a minor, by his father and next friend, Richard Ganaway; Renee Gasden, a minor, by her father and next friend, Raymond Gasden; Tarsha Lucas, a minor, by her mother and next friend, Catherine Williams; Stacy Brown, a minor; Rotissa Renee Brown, a minor; Uganda Brown, a minor by their mother and next friend, Louise Brown; Mitchelle Buggs, a minor; Charlton Ancrum, a minor, by their father and next friend, Henry Vernon; Bernard Simmons; a minor, by his mother and next friend, Idell Simmons; David Bonneau; Annette Bonneau, a minor; Sharon Bonneau, a minor, by their mother and next friend Lorraine Bonneau; Mona Lisa Lockhart, a minor; Dexter Smith, a minor; and Lichelle Lockhart, a minor, by their mother and next friend, Marthenia D. Lockhart; black school children attending Charleston County public school represented by their parents, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CHARLESTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT; State of South Carolina; Charlie G. Williams, Superintendent, State Board of Education; Abraham Funchess; Joseph D. Parker; R.B. Gentry; T.C. Kistler; John R. Stevenson; Lucy B. Hayes; Creighton G. Edwards; Joyce Wimmer; Howard F. Burkey; Jack F. McIntosh; Robert E. Livingston; Jessie B. Schoolfield; W. Buford Estes; Louis O. Dore; Anne K. Collins; Wilbur F. Smith, Jr.; Dolphus Carter, as members of the State Board of Education; Richard W. Riley, Governor and Chairman; Thomas G. Mangum; Marion Gressette; Earl Morris; Grady Patterson, as members of the State Budget and Control Board, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 12, 1992.

As Amended March 27, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irving Gornstein, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Thomas J. Henderson, Lawyers' Committee for Civ. Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C., argued (John R. Dunne, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dennis J. Dimsey, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Paul V. Holtzman, Lawyers' Committee for Civ. Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C., Arthur C. McFarland, Charleston, S.C., Julius Levonne, Chambers, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, New York City, on brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Alfred A. Lindseth, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Atlanta, Ga., argued (Robert N. Rosen, Alice F. Paylor, Rosen, Rosen & Hagood, Charleston, S.C., Charles W. Gambrell, Jr., Treva G. Ashworth, J. Emory Smith, Jr., Office of the Atty. Gen., Columbia, S.C., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before SPROUSE, Circuit Judge, and HILL, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, sitting by designation, and WARD, Senior United States District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.


OPINION

PER CURIAM:

Appellants brought this action in the district court seeking a judgment requiring county wide school desegregation remedies in Charleston County, South Carolina. After extensive hearings, the district court, in a published opinion, United States v. Charleston County Sch. Dist., 738 F.Supp. 1513 (D.S.C.1990), made findings of fact and conclusions of law and entered judgment dismissing the case...

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