Jenkins ex rel. Agyei v. Missouri

JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

The State of Missouri appeals from four orders of the district court1 entered in the ongoing Kansas City school desegregation case. The district court ruled in two orders that base costs of the original group of magnet schools were properly included as desegregation costs, which the State could be required to pay as a result of its joint and several liability for desegregation expenses. The State argues that the district court erred in placing this expense on the State, because in earlier orders the district court had required that these orders be paid by the…