United States v. State of Mississippi (Smith County School District), Sylvarena Baptist Academy

GEWIN, Circuit Judge:

The Smith County, Mississippi Board of Supervisors (hereinafter the “Supervisors”) leased an unused public school facility to the Sylvarena Civic Center Association (hereinafter the “Association”). Thereafter, the Association subleased the facility to the Sylvarena Baptist Academy (hereinafter the “Academy”), a private segregated school, to house its students and teachers. In response to these developments, the United States Department of Justice filed a complaint seeking to have the sublease executed by the Association to the Academy set aside because it alleged that the…