MOORE v. TANGIPAHOA PARISH SCHOOL BD.

No. 15-31119.

864 F.3d 401 (2017)

M. C. MOORE, as father and next friend to minors Joyce Marie Moore, Jerry Moore, and Thelma Louise Moore; Henry Smith, as father and next friend to minors Bennie Smith, Charles Edward Smith, Shirley Ann Smith, and Earline Smith, Plaintiffs-Appellees v. TANGIPAHOA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD, a corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED July 24, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gideon Tillman Carter, III, Esq. , Baton Rouge, LA, James Austin Gray, II , Attorney, Gray & Gray, A.P.L.C., New Orleans, LA, Nelson Dan Taylor, Sr., Esq. , Chief Counsel, J.K. Haynes Legal Defense Fund, Thibodaux, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Pamela Wescovich Dill , Robert L. Hammonds , Hammonds, Sills, Adkins & Guice, L.L.P., Baton Rouge, LA, Ashley E. Sandage, Esq. , Cashe, Coudrain & Sandage, Hammond, LA, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before JOLLY, BARKSDALE, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.


In 1965, Plaintiffs sued Tangipahoa Parish School Board, seeking desegregation of the school district. Since then, numerous remedial injunctions have been issued in pursuit of the ultimate goal: full unitary status and dismissal of the case. In 2008, the district court granted the parties' joint motion to create...

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