Legal Opinion
United States v. Corinth Municipal Separate School District
District Court, N.D. Mississippi
Decided May 19, 1976No. EC 66-80-KPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
READY, Chief Judge.
Today we are called upon to decide at what point a federal district court is warranted in terminating injunctive orders in a public school desegregation case and finally dismissing the action. We regard this issue as one of major import and thus deserving most careful treatment of both facts and law.
On November 25, 1975, the defendant Corinth Municipal Separate School District, its superintendent and board of trustees (hereinafter the district) moved to dissolve all outstanding injunctive orders and to dismiss this long-standing school desegregation case,…
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