United States Fifth Circuit

Decisions about construction, renovation, and administration of school facilities are the province of the local school boards as long as such decisions do not violate the Constitution or federal law by slowing desegregation or affecting its students in a racially inequitable manner.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/06/2000
• Published 11/06/2000

Judges

• WIENER, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, Chief Judge, and CUDAHY and WIENER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Wilson Edwards (argued), Dennis J. Dimsey, Salliann S.M. Dougherty, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Washington, DC, Carlton Wayne Reeves, Jackson, MS, for U.S.


• For Appellees:
  
• Holmes S. Adams (argued), Janet D. McMurtray, Harvey L. Fiser, John Simeon Hooks, Adams & Reese, Jackson, MS, Robert N. Markle, Adams & Reese, New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellees.