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LIPSCOMB v. COLUMBUS MUN. SEPARATE SCHOOL DIST.

No. 96-60652.

145 F.3d 238 (1998)

J. Randolph LIPSCOMB, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated; Mayor, City of Columbus; City Council of the City of Columbus, Mississippi, as the statutorily designated successors in office to the Trustees of Franklin Academy, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. THE COLUMBUS MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT, Dr. Reuben E. Dilworth, Superintendent; et al., Defendants, THE COLUMBUS MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT, Dr. Reuben E. Dilworth, Superintendent; et al., Defendants-Appellants, v. STATE of MISSISSIPPI, Eric Clark, Secretary of State; United States Department of Housing and Urban Development; Eric Clark, Secretary of State, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 23, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dewitt T. Hicks, Jr., Columbus, MS, for Mayor and City Council of City of Columbus, MS.

Luther T. Munford, Phelps Dunbar, Jackson, MS, for Lipscomb.

Joseph Randolph Lipscomb, Lipscomb, Geeslin & McClanahan, P.A., Columbus, MS, pro se.

Andrea Nicole Akins Boyd, Jackson, MS, for State of Mississippi.

Felicia Collete Adams, Calvin D. Buchanan, Oxford, MS, Lynn Ellen Mathewson, Atlanta, GA, for U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development.

William Mack Cameron, Jackson, MS, for Clark.

Before HIGGINBOTHAM, PARKER and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff J. Randolph Lipscomb initiated this class action in federal district court, seeking a declaration as to the validity of certain leases of Mississippi sixteenth section land. In light of the state law issues involved in the case, the district court abstained from decision. We conclude that the district court abused its discretion in declining to exercise its proper jurisdiction.

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