Legal Opinion
Derek Jerome Singleton v. Jackson Municipal Separate School District v. Thomas Arny Rhoden and Honorable Robert A. Biggs, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 26, 1975No. 71--3520PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge.
In this case, that has now become Singleton VII 1 in a controversy spanning eleven and a half years, the litigation concerning the desegregation of the Jackson Municipal Separate School District has now hopefully approached an end.
The present appeal is brought by the state defendants 2 from an order of the District Court of October 19, 1971 enjoining them as state officials from withholding state funds appropriated to the Jackson Municipal Separate School District. “
The class plaintiffs, the court-appointed bi-racial committee, and the defendant school board agreed…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Derek Jerome Singleton, Minor, by Mrs. Edna Marie Singleton, His Mother and Next Friend v. Jackson Municipal Separate School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1965
- Derek Jerome Singleton, Minor, by Mrs. Edna Marie Singleton, His Mother the Next Friend v. Jackson Municipal Separate School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- Derek Jerome Singleton v. Jackson Municipal Separate School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
- Derek Jerome Singleton v. Jackson Municipal Separate School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Nazareth Gates v. John Collier, Superintendent of the Mississippi State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980
- Kirksey v. City of Jackson, Miss.District Court, S.D. Mississippi · 1978
- Nazareth Gates v. John Collier, Superintendent of the Mississippi State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980