LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DIST. v. NORTH LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DIST.

No. 04-2923.

451 F.3d 528 (2006)

LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT, Plaintiff/Appellant, Lorene Joshua; Leslie Joshua; Stacy Joshua; Wayne Joshua, Intervenor Plaintiffs/Appellees, v. NORTH LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT; Pulaski County Special School District; State of Arkansas, Defendants. Dale Charles; Robert L. Brown, Sr.; Gwen Hevey Jackson; Diane Davis; Raymond Frazier, Plaintiffs, v. Pulaski County Board of Education; Patricia Gee, Individually and in her Official Capacity as a Member of the Board of Education of the Little Rock School District, A Public Body; George Cannon, Dr. Individually and in his Official Capacity as a Member of the Board of Education of the Little Rock School District, A Public Body; Katherine Mitchell, Dr., Individually and in her Official Capacity as a Member of the Board of Education of the Little Rock School District, A Public Body; W.D. Hamilton, also known as Bill Hamilton, Individually and in his Official Capacity as a Member of the Board of Education of the Little Rock School District, A Public Body; Cecil Bailey, Individually and in his Official Capacity as a Member of the Pulaski County Board of Education a Public Corporate; Thomas Broughton, Individually and in his Official Capacity as a member of the Pulaski County Board of Education, a Public Corporate; Martin Zoldessy, Dr., Individually and in his Official Capacity as a member of the Pulaski County Board of Education, a Public Corporate, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: June 26, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher J. Heller, argued, Little Rock, AR, for appellant.

Robert Pressman, argued, Lexington, MA (John W. Walker and Norman Chachkin, on the brief), for appellee.

Before WOLLMAN, HEANEY, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.


WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

The Little Rock School District (LRSD) appeals from the district court's1 denial of its request for unitary status. We affirm.

I.

LRSD has been involved in federal desegregation litigation since 1956; the present phase of this case commenced in 1982. See Little Rock Sch. Dist. v. Pulaski County Special Sch. Dist. No. 1, 778 F.2d 404 (8th Cir.1985) (en banc...

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