VALLEY v. RAPIDES PARISH SCHOOL BD.

No. 97-30323.

145 F.3d 329 (1998)

Virgie Lee VALLEY, et al., Plaintiffs, United States of America, Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellee, v. RAPIDES PARISH SCHOOL BOARD, Defendant-Appellee, Richard P. Ieyoub, Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 26, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory Bryan Friel, Mark L. Gross, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Appellate Section, Washington, DC, for United States.

Robert L. Hammonds, Hammonds & Sills, Baton Rouge, LA, for Rapides Parish School Bd.

James Carl Hrdlicka, Baton Rouge, LA, Gina Puleio Campo, Louisiana Dept. of Justice, Civil Div., Baton Rouge, LA, for Richard P. Ieyoub.

Before WISDOM, SMITH and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.


JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

The Attorney General of Louisiana appeals a judgment striking a state constitutional amendment and invalidating implementing legislation designed to divide the Rapides Parish School District into two districts. Finding this case not ripe for review, we vacate and remand.

I.

A.

The Rapides Parish School Board ("RPSB") operated a constitutionally impermissible dual school system — one for whites and one...

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