V. O. Taylor v. Houston Municipal Separate School District

BY THE COURT:

Appellants were operating a dual school system when this suit seeking in-junctive relief was filed in February, 1970. Promptly thereafter they adopted a plan designed to eliminate the dual system and convert it to a unitary system, effective September, 1970. The parties were invited to give the plan judicial sanction by entering into a consent decree embracing the plan but apparently were unable to agree on such a decree. The court, in August, 1970, entered an injunctive order generally following uniform orders then widely being used in school cases throughout this Circuit,…