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U.S. v. STATE OF GA., MERIWETHER COUNTY

No. 96-9062.

171 F.3d 1333 (1999)

UNITED STATES of America, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE OF GEORGIA, MERIWETHER COUNTY, Meriwether County, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 8, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis J. Dimsey, Miriam R. Eisenstein, Civil Rights Division, Washington, DC, Dennis D. Parker, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, New York City, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Phillip L. Hartley, Martha M. Pearson, Harben & Hartley, Gainesville, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.

A. Lee Parks, Kirwan, Parks, Chesin and Miller, Atlanta, GA, for Godfreys.

Before ANDERSON and BARKETT, Circuit Judges, and HILL, Senior Circuit Judge.

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

I. OVERVIEW

The United States and intervenors Charles Ridley et al. (collectively "Plaintiffs") appeal from the district court's order approving the Meriwether County Board of Education's ("Board") "Five Year Facilities Plan" ("Plan"). Plaintiffs contend that the district court applied the wrong legal standard in gauging the Plan and assert that the court's subsequent approval of the Plan constituted an abuse of discretion...

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