Legal Opinion
Thomas R. Parnell, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross v. Rapides Parish School Board, Defendants-Appellees-Cross v. Terry L. Farrar, Intervenors
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 3, 1978No. 76-4176PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
This is another chapter in the extended story of reapportionment in Rapides Parish, Louisiana. In this class action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the district court found that the apportionment scheme used to select parish school board and police jury members, instituted by a federal court in 1971 in response to an earlier suit, could not legally be maintained. The trial judge ordered that both bodies be elected from nine single-member districts. The existing boards were to remain in office until the next scheduled elections. For the school board, those elections,…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Whitcomb v. ChavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Louisiana v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Charles F. Zimmer, Stewart Marshall, Intervenor-Appellant v. John J. McKeithenCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
- Connor v. FinchSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- East Carroll Parish School Board v. MarshallSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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3Cited by29 opinions
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- Willard Barrett Wilson v. James A. Lynaugh, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1989
- Jeanette Rea Jackson v. Bradley SmithTennessee Supreme Court · 2012
- Tyus v. SchoemehlCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1996
- Wesch v. FolsomCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1993
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