LIDDELL v. SPECIAL SCHOOL DIST.

Nos. 98-1710, 98-1758, 98-1814, 98-1930, 98-2135.

149 F.3d 862 (1998)

Michael C. LIDDELL, etc., et al., Appellees, v. SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT of St. Louis County, Appellant. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION of the City of St. Louis, et al., Appellants, v. STATE OF MISSOURI, et al., Appellees. Michael C. LIDDELL, etc., et al., Appellees, v. STATE OF MISSOURI, et al., Appellants. THE ST. LOUIS CAREER EDUCATION DISTRICT, Appellee, v. MISSOURI NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Appellant. AFFTON BOARD OF EDUCATION, et al., Appellants, v. THE ST. LOUIS CAREER EDUCATION DISTRICT, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 16, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donna Aronoff Smith, St. Louis, MO, argued (Darold E. Crotzer, Jr., St. Louis, MO, on the brief), for Special School District.

Douglas A. Copeland, St. Louis, MO, argued (Stephen C. Hiotis, Robert P. Baine, Jr., Henry D. Menghini, Richard Ulrich, John Gianoulakis, Mark J. Bremer, Thomas E. Tueth and Ian P. Cooper, St. Louis, MO; Darold E. Crotzer, Jr. and George Bude, Clayton, MO; Andrew Leonard, Chesterfield, MO, on the brief), for County School District.

John R. Munich, Jefferson City, MO, argued (Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Attorney General, Michael J. Fields and Bart A. Matanic, Jefferson City, MO, on the brief), for State of Missouri.

Charles A. Werner, St. Louis, MO, argued (Loretta K. Haggard, St. Louis, MO, on the brief), for National Education Association.

Mark T. Keaney, St. Louis, MO, argued (Ronald A. Norwood and Benjamin A. Lipman, St. Louis, MO, on the brief), for Career Education District.

Kenneth Brostron, St. Louis, MO, argued (Robert E. McWilliams, Jr. and Dirk DeYong, St. Louis, MO, on the brief), for Board of Education.

Michelle M. Aronowitz, Washington, DC, argued (Bill Lann Lee, Dennis J. Dimsey and Lisa W. Edwards, Washington, DC, on the brief), for the United States.

Michael A. Middleton, Colombia, MO, argued (William Douthit and Veronica Johnson, St. Louis, MO; William L. Taylor and Dianne M. Piche, Washington, DC, on the brief), for Liddell, Caldwell and NAACP.

Before McMILLIAN, HEANEY, and FAGG, Circuit Judges.


HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

The vocational education portion of this desegregation litigation is before us for the tenth2 time. When the case was recently before us, we reviewed the district court's decision to assign the responsibility for providing vocational education in this area to a new entity, the Career Education District (CED). See Liddell v. Board of Educ., 121 F.3d 1201 (8th Cir.1997). Pursuant...

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