LEWIS v. ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOL BD.

No. 09-30971.

662 F.3d 343 (2011)

Darrin Kenny LEWIS, Sr., Individually and as Natural Tutor of His Minor Children, A and B, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 3, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jill Leininger Craft , Law Office of Jill L. Craft, L.L.C., Baton Rouge, LA, Robert Ryland Percy, III (argued), Percy, Stromberg, Bush & Lanoux, Gonzales, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Robert L. Hammonds , Pamela Wescovich Dill (argued), Hammonds & Sills, Baton Rouge, LA, Jeffery Paul Diez , Gonzales, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and KING and HAYNES, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

In this equal protection case, Darrin Lewis appeals from a grant of summary judgment in favor of the Ascension Parish School Board in Louisiana. The district court rejected Lewis's claim that the School Board's student assignment plan, formulated to address school population changes while "maintaining the district's unitary status," was impermissibly race-based and discriminatory against minority elementary, middle, and high school students zoned for East...

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