Legal Opinion
United States v. Dedra Estell Overton, Plaintiffs-Intervenors v. Texas Education Agency, Samantha Price v. Austin Independent School District
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 15, 1987No. 87-1576, 87-1635PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
In 1980, after ten years of litigation, the Austin Independent School District consented to a decree contemplating that in three years the school district would be declared unitary and the case dismissed. In July, 1987, some four years after a judicial declaration that the AISD had achieved unitary status, the Overton appellants, Plaintiff-Intervenors in the earlier AISD litigation, requested further relief because AISD allegedly had violated the terms of the consent decree. The district court observed that the case had been dismissed, concluding that it…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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3Cited by39 opinions
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