Legal Opinion
United States v. State of Texas
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 24, 2006No. 05-41205PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge:
This case arises out of student transfers from one rural Texas school district to another. Before and after the transfers, both districts had a majority of racial minority students. 1 The United States and Hearne ISD, the Plaintiff district, contend that the transfers impermissibly impeded desegregation and violated a thirty-five-year-old desegregation decree against the Texas Education Agency. The district court ruled in favor of the Plaintiffs and enjoined the transfer only of .white students (even though large numbers of black and Hispanic students have also…
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