Legal Opinion
Gordon v. Jefferson Davis Parish School Board
District Court, W.D. Louisiana
Decided July 22, 1971No. 10902PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDWIN F. HUNTER, Jr., District Judge:
The target of Supreme Court and Fifth Circuit cases from Brown I to the present has been the dual system. Jefferson Davis Parish has uprooted that system “root and branch”. Concededly the system is unitary.1 There has been no abandonment, no fragmentation.
The case was remanded on June 28, 1971, 5 Cir., 446 F.2d 266:
“ * * * with directions for the district court to promptly conduct hearings, and thereon make findings and conclusions as to whether or not the closing of Jefferson Davis High School and Ward Elementary School by the appellee Board was in fact…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Arlam Carr v. Montgomery County Board of EducationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
- Lavon Wright v. The Board of Public Instruction of Alachua County, FloridaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
- Marcus Gordon v. Jefferson Davis Parish School BoardCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- Hugh Larry Bell v. West Point Municipal Separate School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Alesia Lee Fitzpatrick v. Board of Education, City of Enid Public SchoolsCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1978
- Hill v. Greene County School DistrictDistrict Court, S.D. Mississippi · 1994
- Marcus Gordon v. Jefferson Davis Parish School BoardCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- Marcus Gordon v. Jefferson Davis Parish School BoardCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971