Memo from Leventhal to Counsel Re: Norwood Order; Final Judgment Under Rule 58

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Melvyn R. Leventhal 

January 4, 1977 

Jack Greenberg. 
Jim Nabrit, III 
Steve Ralston 

Bill Lann Lee 

Attached is a decision and order 

entered by the Northern District of 

Mississippi holding unlawful under 

Norwood v. Harrison special education 

aid to private racist academies. 

There is a helpful analysis contrasting 

Washington v. Davis and Norwood. 

  

  

The immediate issue is whether we 

should challenge the Court's decision 

not to require the private academies 

to refund monies received to date. 

Several million dollars are involved. 

See p.ll of the opinion for court's 

rationale. 

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
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WESTERN DIVISION 

DELORES NORWOOD, ET AL, Plaintiffg 
Vv. 

NO. wc 70+53-K CLIFF PINCH, GOVERNOR, ET.AL, Defendants 

FINAL JUDGMENT UNDER RULE 58, FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE 

Sum hereinafter fixed, for the reasons cited in Our prior published Opinion, Norwood v. Harrison, 410 F. Supp. 133 (1975), which holg- ing was bottomed upon § 718 of the Emergency School Act of 1972 20 USC § 1617, =a holding which we now reaffirm, as wel} as 

94-559, €nacted October 13, 1976, 42 USC § 1983, ir is Ordered 

by his mother Floy Gates Siggers, Audrey Shanda Woodard by her father Henry King Woodard, and Andrew Galloway by his mother Gertrude Galloway, do have of and recover from the Honorable 

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CLiff Pinch, Governor, in his capacity as Chairman of the Miss- 

Purchasing Board, Charles E. Holladay, 

State Superintendent of Education, as Vice-Chairman of the Miss= 

issippi State Textbook Purchasing Board, W. A. Matthews, Executive 

Secretary of the Mississippi State Textbook Purchasing Board, and 

Larry Tynes, 7. M. Stone and Mrs. Jane McCool, members of the 

Mississippi State Textbook Purchasing Board, in their official 

capacity but not individually, and their successors in office, 

and also the Mississippi State Textbook Purchasing Board, as a 

distinct public agency of the State of Mississippi, the sum of 

$23,852 as attorney fees payable to plaintiffs' counsel, Honorable 

Melvyn R. Leventhal, in the amount of $22,102, Honorable James M. 

Nabrit III, 51,750, and the additional sum of $4,999.44 taxed as 

reasonable and necessary costs incurred by the plaintiffs in the 

successful prosecution of this suit. 

For which let execution issue forthwith, and the clerk 

of this court is hereby directed to forward a certified copy of 

this judgment to all defendants hereinabove named, as well as to 

counsel of record for both the defendants and the plaintiff class. 

This, 3rd day of January, 1978. 

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Chief Judge LL 
United States District Court 

  

CERTIFYING Siimal il 
  

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is a true copy of the original thereof 
now in my office, 

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