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Clifford Eugene Davis, Jr., Dr. D'Orsay Bryant and Alphonso O. Potter, Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellants v. East Baton Rouge Parish School Board

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided April 7, 1978No. 75-3610PublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

In the proceedings below, the district court found that the East Baton Rouge Parish school system is a unitary system being operated on a nondiscriminatory basis and dismissed this case with prejudice. The intervenors appeal from the district court’s order; they claim that the school system is not and never has been unitary. 1

Like so many school desegregation suits in this circuit, this case has been in the federal courts for many years. The suit was instituted in 1956, following the Supreme Court’s decisions in Brown v. Board of Education (Brown I), 347 U.S. 483, 74…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
  2. Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  3. Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
  4. Green v. County School Board of New Kent CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  5. Singleton v. Jackson Municipal Separate School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969

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3Cited by18 opinions

  1. Delores Ross v. Houston Independent School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
  2. United States of America, Sheanda Bryant, Intervenors-Appellants, Cross-Appellees v. Lawrence County School District, Cross-AppellantsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1986
  3. Tasby v. EstesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
  4. Virgie Lee Valley, United States of America, Intervenor-Appellee v. Rapides Parish School Board, and Clyde Holloway, Intervenors-AppellantsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
  5. Davis v. East Baton Rouge Parish School BoardCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983

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