TAYLOR v. HOUSTON MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT

No. 30581.

444 F.2d 118 (1971)

V. O. TAYLOR et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. HOUSTON MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 7, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Armis E. Hawkins, Houston, Miss., for defendants-appellants.

John C. Brittain, Jr., Oxford, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before BELL, AINSWORTH and GODBOLD, Circuit Judges.


BY THE COURT:

Appellants were operating a dual school system when this suit seeking injunctive relief was filed in February, 1970. Promptly thereafter they adopted a plan designed to eliminate the dual system and convert it to a unitary system, effective September, 1970. The parties were invited to give the plan judicial sanction by entering into a consent decree embracing the plan but apparently were unable to agree on such a decree. The court, in August, 1970, entered...

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