BOREL v. SCHOOL BOARD SAINT MARTIN PARISH

No. 21-30514.

44 F.4th 307 (2022)

Tracie T. BOREL, ON BEHALF OF her minor children, AL and RB; Genevieve Dartez, on behalf of her great-grandchild, DD, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SCHOOL BOARD SAINT MARTIN PARISH, Defendant-Appellant, v. United States of America, Intervenor-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED August 11, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deuel Ross , NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Incorporated, Washington, DC, Gideon Tillman Carter, III, Esq. , Gideon T. Carter, III , Baton Rouge, LA, Katrina Feldkamp , Kevin Eli Jason , NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Incorporated, New York, NY, Cara McClellan , University of Pennsylvania, Carey Law School — Gittis Legal Clinic, Philadelphia, PA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Elizabeth Baker Murrill, Esq. , Assistant Attorney General, Morgan Brungard, Office of the Attorney General for the State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA, John Richard Blanchard , Pamela Wescovich Dill , Robert L. Hammonds , Timothy J. Riveria , Hammonds, Sills, Adkins, Guice, Noah & Perkins, L.L.P., Baton Rouge, LA, Shae Gary McPhee, Jr. Assistant Solicitor General, Louisiana Department of Justice, Office of the Solicitor General, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-Appellant.

Anna Marks Baldwin , Erin Helene Flynn, Esq. , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, for Intervenor-Appellee.

Before Higginbotham, Haynes, and Wilson, Circuit Judges.


We again revisit this school desegregation case, which has been pending in federal court for over five decades. In this appeal, the St. Martin Parish School Board (the "School Board") challenges the district court's (1) exercise of remedial jurisdiction over the case, (2) denial of...

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