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AYERS v. FORDICE

No. 4:75CV009-B-0.

40 F.Supp.2d 382 (1999)

Jake AYERS, Jr.; Bennie G. Thompson; Virginia Hill; B. Leon Johnson; Pamela Gipson, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated; et al., Plaintiffs. United States of America, Plaintiff/Intervenor, v. Kirk FORDICE, Governor, State of Mississippi, et al., Defendants.

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

March 24, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Armand Derfner, Armand Derfner, Attorney, Charleston, SC, Robert Pressman, Robert Pressman, Attorney, Lexington, MA, Alvin O. Chambliss, Jr., Alvin O. Chambliss, Attorney, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX, for Jake Ayers, Jr., Private Plaintiffs, plaintiffs.

John R. Hailman, U.S. Attorney's Office, Oxford, MS, Nathaniel Douglas, K. Heshima White, U.S. Department of Justice — Civil Rights Division, Educational Opportunities Section, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff/Intervenors (Government), intervenor-plaintiff.

Michael C. Moore, Mississippi Attorney General's Office, Jackson, MS, William F. Goodman, Jr. Paul H. Stephenson, III, Watkins & Eager, Jackson, MS, for Governor Kirk Fordice, Defendants/Senior Colleges, defendants.

ORDER

BIGGERS, Chief Judge.

The private plaintiffs in the above styled and numbered cause and the United States have moved for an injunction to prohibit the defendant Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning (the Board) from expanding the academic program offerings at the University of Southern Mississippi-Gulf Coast (USMGC) to include lower division courses which would, in effect, make the Gulf Coast campus a four-year institution...

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