J. Randolph LIPSCOMB, et al., Plaintiffs,
v.
The COLUMBUS MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., Defendants.
United States District Court, N.D. Mississippi, Eastern Division.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
March 22, 2000.
March 22, 2000.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Hunter M. Gholson, Dewitt T. Hicks, Jr., Gholson, Hicks & Nichols, Columbus, MS, Joseph Randolph Lipscomb, Columbus, MS, Luther T. Munford, Phelps Dunbar, Jackson, MS, Thomas G. Wallace, Thomas G. Wallace & Associates, Columbus, MS, for Randolph J. Lipscomb, Mayor, City of Columbus, City Council of the City of Columbus, Mississippi.
Frank D. Montague, Jr., Montague, Pittman & Varnado, Hattiesburg, MS, for The Columbus Municipal Separate School District, Tom Cooley, Owen Bush, Glenn Lautzenhiser, Sarah Jones.
Dion J. Shanley, Hickman, Goza & Gore, Oxford, MS, P. Roger Googe, Jr., Gerald W. McWhorter, Alan M. Purdie, Wilson H. Carroll, Mississippi Attorney General's Office, Jackson, MS, for State of Mississippi, Honorable Richard Molpus, Secretary of State.
Felicia C. Adams, U.S. Attorney's Office, Oxford, MS, for United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Wilson H. Carroll, Mississippi Attorney General's Office, Jackson, MS, William Mack Cameron, Jackson, MS, for Richard Molpus.
Dion J. Shanley, Hickman, Goza & Gore, Oxford, MS, Wilson H. Carroll, Mississippi Attorney General's Office, Jackson, MS, William Mack Cameron, Jackson, MS, for Eric Clark.
United States District Court, N.D. Mississippi, Eastern Division.
OPINION
SENTER, Senior District Judge.
Plaintiff J. Randolph Lipscomb initiated this class action seeking a declaration as to the validity of certain leases of Mississippi sixteenth section land.
In 1816, the United States purchased for $130,000 from the Chickasaw Nation title to land that now comprises parts of northern Alabama and Mississippi. In 1817, following a pattern that had been in place since before the ratification of the U.S. Constitution...
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