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U.S. v. STATE OF GEORGIA

No. 97-9199.

171 F.3d 1344 (1999)

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

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 8, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gloria J. Browne, Elaine R. Jones, Dennis D. Parker, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York City, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Patricia A. Brannan, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, DC, A. Lee Parks, Kirwan, Parks, Chesin & Miller, Atlanta, GA, John M. Taylor, Lewis, Taylor & Todd, La-Grange, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Dennis J. Dimsey, Miriam R. Eisenstein, Civil Rights Division, Washington, DC, for United States.

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

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

I. OVERVIEW

The United States and Charles Ridley et al. (collectively "Plaintiffs") appeal from the district court's order of September 30, 1997 ("1997 Order"), ruling that continued federal court supervision of the Troup County School District was inappropriate. The district court based its decision on its interpretation of a previous order in the case, entered many years earlier by the three-judge district court in United...

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