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AYERS v. ALLAIN

No. GC75-9-NB.

674 F.Supp. 1523 (1987)

Jake AYERS, Sr., et al., Plaintiffs, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. William ALLAIN, Governor, State of Mississippi; W. Ray Cleere, Commissioner of Higher Education; Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning, Betty A. Williams, President, Thomas D. Bourdeaux, Vice President, William H. Austin, Jr., Frank O. Crosthwait, Jr., Bryce Griffis, Will A. Hickman, Charles C. Jacobs, Jr., William M. Jones, John R. Lovelace, M.D., Diane Miller, Denton Rogers, Jr., Sidney L. Rushing, George T. Watson, Members; Delta State University, Kent Wyatt, President; Mississippi State University, Donald W. Zacharias, President; Mississippi University for Women, James W. Strobel, President; University of Mississippi, R. Gerald Turner, Chancellor; University of Southern Mississippi, Aubrey K. Lucas, President; et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Mississippi, Greenville Division.

December 10, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alvin Chambliss, Jr., Oxford, Miss., LeVern Younger, Civ. Rights Div., Educational Opportunities Litigation Section, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Edwin L. Pittman, Atty. Gen., Ed Davis Noble, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., William F. Goodman, Jr., Paul H. Stephenson, III, William F. Ray, Jackson, Miss., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BIGGERS, District Judge.

This class action was commenced on January 28, 1975. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants were maintaining a racially dual system of public higher education in violation of the Fifth, Ninth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d, et seq. On April 21, 1975, the...

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