HELMS v. CODY

Civ. A. No. 85-5533.

856 F.Supp. 1102 (1994)

Mary L. HELMS, individually and as next friend of Amy T. Helms, a minor; et al., Plaintiffs, v. Wilmer CODY, as Louisiana State Superintendent of Instruction; et al., Defendants, Guy Mitchell, et al., Intervenors.

United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana.

June 10, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee Boothby, Boothby & Yingst, Washington, DC, for plaintiffs.

Jack A. Grant, Grant & Barrow, Grenta, LA, for defendants Jefferson Parish School Bd., Barbara Turner as Superintendent of Jefferson Parish Public School System, Martin Marino as President and member of Jefferson Parish School Bd., and Polly Thomas as Vice President and member of Jefferson Parish School Bd., Robert Wolfe, Barry Bordelon, O.H. Guidry, Laurie Rolling, Cedric Floyd, Sharon D. Bitzer, and Michael Hurley as members of Jefferson Parish School Bd.

Tom Rayer, Denechaud & Denechaud, New Orleans, LA, for defendant Sp. Educational Services Corp.

Drake Cutini, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Washington, DC, for defendant Richard W. Riley as Secretary of U.S. Dept. of Educ.

William F. Baity, Asst. U.S. Atty., Chief, Civ. Div., New Orleans, LA, for Richard W. Riley as Secretary of U.S. Dept. of Educ.

Rose Polito Wooden and James C. Hrdlicka, Asst. Attys. Gen., Office of Atty. Gen., LA Dept. of Justice, Baton Rouge, LA, for defendants Dr. Raymond K. Arveson as LA Superintendent of Public Instruction, Mary Landrieu as LA State Treasurer, and LA State Bd. of Elementary and Secondary Educ.

William T. D'Zurilla, Place St. Charles, New Orleans, for intervenors Guy and Jan Mitchell, Earline Castillon, and Edward and JacLynn Welsch.

Patricia A. Dean, Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, for intervenors Guy and Jan Mitchell, Earline Castillon, and Edward and JacLynn Welsch.


OPINION

HEEBE, District Judge.

The plaintiffs in this action are Mary L. Helms, individually and on behalf of her minor daughter, Amy T. Helms; Marie Louise Schneider; and Esperanza Tizol. They reside within the Jefferson Parish School District and within Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.

The defendants currently remaining in this case are:

a) Dr. Raymond K. Arveson as the Louisiana Superintendent of Public Instruction

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