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AYERS v. THOMPSON

No. 02-60493.

358 F.3d 356 (2004)

Jake AYERS, Jr., Private Plaintiffs, Plaintiff-Appellant, Lillie B. Ayers; Leola Blackmon; Randolph Walker; Henry Bernard Ayers; Ivory Phillips, Dr.; Vernon Archer, Dr.; Dorothy Walls; Francis Oladeleshowl, Dr.; Alex D. Acholonu, Dr., Appellants, v. Bennie G. THOMPSON, United States Congressman, Second Congressional District Mississippi, Plaintiff-Appellee, and Plaintiff/Intervenors (Government) Intervenor Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Haley Barbour, Etc.; et al., Defendants, Haley Barbour, Governor, State of Mississippi, Defendant-Appellee, Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning, Appellee, v. Louis Armstrong, Movant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Revised February 11, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alvin O. Chambliss, Jr. (argued), James Matthew Douglas (argued), Destiny Sadelhia Allen, Linda Marie Dunson, Eric Terrell McFerren, Houston, TX, for Jake, Lillie and Henry Ayers, Blackmon, Walker, Phillips, Archer, Walls, Oladeleshowl, Acholonu and Armstrong.

Armand Derfner (argued), Derfner, Altman & Wilborn, Charleston, SC, Robert Pressman, Lexington, MA, Isaac K. Byrd, Jr., Ramel L. Cotton, Byrd & Associates, Jackson, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Linda Frances Thome (argued), Jessica Dunsay Silver, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Rights Div., Washington, DC, for Intervenor Plaintiff-Appellee.

Paul H. Stephenson, III (argued), William Goodman, Jr., Watkins & Eager, Jackson, MS, for Bd. of Trustees of State Institution of Higher Learning and Barbour.

Before KING, Chief Judge, and JOLLY and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

KING, Chief Judge:

African-American citizens of Mississippi, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated ("the Private Plaintiffs" or "the Private-Plaintiff class"), filed this class-action lawsuit in 1975, seeking to compel the desegregation of Mississippi's system of higher education. After nearly thirty years of litigation, a settlement agreement has been reached between the Private Plaintiffs, the United...

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