Defendants' Brief in Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion Requiring Defendants to Cooperate and Pay for a Desegregation Plan Prepared by Plaintiffs
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April 6, 1972
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
SOUTHERN DIVISION
RONALD BRADLEY, et al, ■ .
Plaintiffs,
V'.
WILLIAM G. MILLIKEN, et al,
Defendants, , Civil Action
DETROIT FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, No. 35257
LOCAL #2 31, AMERICAN FEDERATION
OF TEACHERS, AFL-CIO,
Defendant-
Intervenor
and .
DENISE MAGDOWSKI, et al,
Defendants-
Intervenors.
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STATE DEFENDANTS' BRIEF IN OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFFS'
MOTION FOR AN ORDER REQUIRING STATE DEFENDANTS TO
COOPERATE FULLY AND OPENLY AND FOR STATE DEFENDANTS
TO PAY FOR THE REASONABLE COSTS OF A PLAN OF
METROPOLITAN DESEGREGATION PREPARED BY PLAINTIFFS.
FRANK J. KELLEY
Attorney General
Eugene Krasicky
Patrick Kowaleski
Assistant Attorneys General
Attorneys for State Defendants
Business Address:
7 Story Office Building
525 West Ottawa Street
Lansing, Michigan 48913
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
SOUTHERN DIVISION
RONALD BRADLEY, et al,
Plain tiffs,
v .
WILLIAM G. MILLIKEN, et al,
, Defendants,
DETROIT FEDERATION OF TEACHERS,
LOCAL #231, AMERICAN FEDERATION
OF TEACHERS, AFL-CIO,
Defenaant-
Intervenor
and
DENISE MAGDOWSKI, et al, '
Defendan ts-
Intervenors.
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Civil Action
No. 35257
STATE DEFENDANTS' BRIEF IN OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFFS'
MOTION FOR AN ORDER REQUIRING STATE DEFENDANTS TO
COOPERATE FULLY AND OPENLY AND FOR STATE DEFENDANTS
TO PAY FOR THE REASONABLE COSTS OF A PLAN OF
METROPOLITAN DESEGREGATION PREPARED BY PLAINTIFFS.
Introduction
This Court rendered its decision containing its findings of
fact and conclusions of law on September 27, 1971. A hearing was
held on October 4, 1971 to "chart our course from here on in these
proceedings." Tr. October 4, 1971, p 3. The Court opened the
proceedings by indicating that it was going to order "the local and
state school authorities to present desegregation plans." Tr. October
4, 1971, p 3. The means of desegregation was left to the school
authorities:
"I want to make it plain I have no preconceived
notions about the solutions or remedies which will
be required here. Of course, the primary and basic
and fundamental responsibiliLv is that of the school
authorities. . . . " Tr. October 4, 1971, p 6.
"[Emphasis supplied]
The Court then asked fop: comments and counsel responded:
"MR. KRASICKY: As the Court is aware the
Department of Education is one of the twenty
departments of the Executive Branch. It is .
headed by the State Board of Education, one of
the defendants here, and its chief executive
officer is the Superintendent of Public Instructions,
one of the Defendants here.
"In consulting with the Department, recognizing
there would be a meeting today and certain inquiry
would be made as to what the time might be for drawing
up a plan, I was informed that in Los Angeles, and I was
informed by a representative of the Department, when a
desegregation plan was promulgated for that city school
district that a contract was made with the Rand
Corporation, a program was written and all information
was fed into the computers and came out with a program
six months later. Based upon this experience, and
tnis is tiie best the department could do, they estimate
that it will take six months to draw up a plan.
"I point out to the Court on Friday of last week,
October 1, under Michigan law, school districts were
required to count their pupils. This is for the purpose
of state aid and also for other reporting purposes. So
it will be necessary to feed all of this information
back in and that is going to take some time.
"The Department of Education also estimates that it
will cost a quarter of a million dollars to oromulcrate
such a plan and this is a very rough estimate. I asked
them if they had toe money for it and they said, no, but
they were hopeful of getting a grant to pay for it. They
dian't tell me where the grant was coming from, what their
prospects were, but they said they had hopes of obtaining
such a grant.
"Obviously these defendants that I have described and
not the other State defendants have the expertise and
ability to prepare plans. It will take time. I am sure
the plaintiffs will say six months is too long but we are
responding to the Court in candor. It is going to take
that long. It may even take longer. Some hope was
expressed that the Court might give indications in this
so-called metropolitan plan as to what the boundaries of
the metropolitan plan would be. I informed them that I
would bring it to the Court's attention.
Summing up, it will take at least six months to draw up
a rational, understandable plan, based upon experience of
other areas in the country. I so inform toe Court.
THE COURT: Let me stop you. As I understand it you
and toe board would like to know what I consider toe
proper dimensions of the so-called metropolitan plan?
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,:Mk . KkaSICKY: This is what 1 was asked to make
inquiry of.
"MR. 3USHNELL: Yes.
"THE COURT: I would defer to the Board on that.
"MR. KRASICKY: I shall so inform them.
"THE COURT: That is their problem and I am looking
to them for advice on that very thing. Now the
thought I had about this matter was this, whether
it would be proper and feasible to say to the State
Board, 'Present to the Court a skeletal plan so
that we can recognize the dimensions of our problem.'
It seems to me that is the first order of business
in trying to fashion a metropolitan plan. You have
to define the boundaries and the borders.
"Now it may be— I'm not an educator— I never aspired
to become one, maybe I am being forced into it but
it may be that that can't be done, I don't know.
Maybe until you come up with an overall plan you really
can't tell me what the boundaries of it should be or
what its dimensions should be, I don't know.
"In my simplistic approach I thought that that would
be the starting point. If you could on the basis of
much less than complete knowledge, which a computer
can devour, settle on a fairly comprehensive outline
of the territory to be covered. . . ."
Tr. October 4, 1371, pp 11, 12, 13.
Counsel for plaintiffs responded, in pertinent part:
"It may be what can be done at the present time is
relatively limited but there are some things I am
sure in a good faith effort that could be done. We
also suggested that the Detroit Board and the State
Board either jointly or separately come forward with
their proposals for an outline of how far out we
should go - a general proposal. I am not talking
about assigning every child to every"'school for the
forthcoming school year but some skeleton outline as
the Court has suggested. In doing that I think we
are all nounci to use the Swann remedies. As the
court indicated there they are determining there was
a right and we must consider, and I think the parties,
all of us should be directed to consider all of the
techniques ' that Swann suggests and any other technique
which would provide a similar result.
"It may have taken six months in Los Angeles, your Honor,
to assign every pupil to a school but certainly it
shouldn't take more than a couple weeks to come in here
with a reasonably informed judgment as to the .perimeters
of the relief. I think the Court should set down a
fairly rigid schedule and fairly quick one to come in
to get the issue properly before the Court."
[Emphasis supplied] Tr. October 4, 1971, pp 20, 21
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After the Court had heard all counsel, the Court said:
"THE COURT: Within thirty days the Detroit
Board of Education should submit to the Court
a concise report of progress on the Magnet Plan,
and along with it an evaluation of its worth in
helping to bring about a better and higher quality
of education. Copies of both the report and also
the evaluation shall be made available to the other
parties litigant at the same time.
"Such other parties may have ten additional days in
which to submit their views and evaluations of the
progress under the Magnet Plan.
"It is further ordered that the Detroit Board of
Education submit its plan for desegregation of its
schools within sixty days.
"It is ordered that the State defendants submit a
metropolitan plan of desegregation, perhaps in more
or less skeletal form, within one hunarea twenty
(120) days.
"Objections to each plan-, city and metropolitan, may
be filed by the other parties litigant not later than
thirty days after the expiration of the time set.
Such objections may be accompanied by alternate plans."
Tr. October 4, 1971, pp 26, 27 [Emphasis supplied]
Court expected the State Board of Education, as the state party with
primary basic and fundamental responsibility in this field to submit
plans on behalf of the State. It is equally clear that these plans
were to be skeletal only and were not to include pupil assignments.
While all counsel orally agreed that the oral decision of
the Court need not be reduced to writing, thereafter the defendant
State Board of Education insisted that the decision of the Court be
put in writing. Because the plaintiffs would not approve the form of an
order proposed by state defendants, the Court prepared and entered its own
order dated November 5, 1971. •
On February 4, 1972 the defendant State Board of Education
submitted 6 plans for consideration by this Court. They were submitted
without recommendation of the State Board of Education because it was
unable to agree on any plan or plans. See Exhibit M 9, hearings on
Metropolitan Plan.
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Thus, tiie defendant State Board of Education, as the
state authority with the primary, basic and fundamental responsibility
in this field, has complied fully with the Court's direction.
Regardless of this, the plaintiffs are seeking to alter that portion
of the Court's decision requiring plaintiffs, if they disapprove of
defendants' plans, to provide their own alternate plans and are
seeking, in effect, to, require the state defendants to pay for
alternate plans for them. Plaintiffs''requests are based on the
conclusion that an order of this Court has not been met.
In light of tne decision of the Court of Appeal!'*"that the
District Court's action of November 5, 1971 did not constitute a
mandatory injunction pursuant to 28 USC § 1292(a), there is a question
of whether or not the Court even issued an order. As was said in
Taylor v Board of Education of New Rochelle, 288 F2d 600, 604 (1961):
". . . It is common practice for an equity judge
first to reach a conclusion as to liability and to
determine the aoorooriate relief later in the event
of an affirmative finding. If the District Judge
had said in his opinion only that a further hearing
would be held at which the parties would have an
opportunity to express themselves as to relief, by
testimony, argument, or both, it would be entirely
plain that he had not granted a mandatory injunction,
and this would be so even if he had also stated that,
in the interest of orderly procedure, he would expect
the defendants to take the lead at the hearing. In
substance this is what Judge Kaufman did. Although
the penultimate paragraph of his opinion is headed
'The Decree,' the context makes clear that the few
sentences that follow were not, themselves, decretal,
but simply explained how he planned to fashion his
decree. To be sure, the opinion used the word 'ordered'
with respect to the filing of a plan, just as courts
often 'order' or 'direct' parties to file briefs,
findings and other papers. Normally this does not mean
that tne court will hold in contempt a party that does
not do this, but rather that if he fails to file by the
date specified, the court may refuse to receive his
submission later and may proceed without it. . .
The state defendants filed an appeal from the decision of
this Court, dated November 5, 1971. Plaintiffs moved to dismiss,
relying inter alia upon the argument that upon submission of the
plans to the Court, the state defendants' claim would be moot. See
discussion under 3 below. In dismissing state defendants' appeal the
[1] BradleY v * Milliken, Appeal Dismissed, Feb. 23, 1972,
F2d (1972).
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Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit determined that this Court's
order was neither a final order nor an interlocutory mandatory
injunction which could be appealed under Title 28 USC § 1292(a).
Assuming, arguendo, however, that the Court's decree of
November 5, 1971 constituted a binding order, several things are
clear:
1. The defendant State Board of Education's
plan was to be skeletal only.
2. The metropolitan plan was not to be subject
to "approval" by the plaintiffs.
3. The State Board of Education, as the state
authority with the primary, basic and
fundamental responsibility in this area,
has complied fully with the directive of
November 5, 1971.
ARGUMENT
1. The plan was to be skeletal only.
It is clear from the comments of court and counsel at the
•October 4, 1971 proceedings that the metropolitan plan to be
submitted was to be skeletal only in that it was to define the
boundaries and the borders of the metropolitan plan and was not
intended to discuss such things as pupil assignments.
When asked by counsel for the state defendants whether the
Court intended to establish the perimeters of the metropolitan plan
tiie Court indicated it would defer to the State Board of Education
on the matter:
"That is their problem and I am looking to them
for advice on that very thing. Now the thought
I had about this matter was this, whether it would
be proper and feasible to say at the State Board,
'Present to the Court a skeletal plan so that we
can recognize the dimensions of our problem.' It
seems to me that is the first order of business in
trying to fashion a metropolitan plan. You have to
define the boundaries and the borders.
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"Now it may be--I 'm not an educator-:— I never -
aspired to become one,, maybe I am being forced,
into it but it may be that that can't be done,
I don't know. Maybe until you come up with an
overall plan you really can't tell me what the
boundaries of it should be or what its dimensions
should be, I don't know. .
"In my simplistic approach I thought that that
would be tile starting point. If you could on the
basis of much less than complete knowledge, which
a computer can devour, settle on a fairly compre
hensive outline of the territory to be covered.
. . ." p. 13
Counsel for plaintiffs clearly understood that a detailed
plan was not intended by the Court's directive. In discussing the
State Board's role the plaintiffs questioned only the required time
for preparation of such a plan, and not on the scope of the plan:
[MR. LUCAS] -
"It may be what can be done at the present time
is relatively limited but there are some things
I am sure in a good faith effort that could be
done. We also suggested that the Detroit Board
and the State Board either jointly or separately
come forward with their proposals for an outline
of how far out we should go - a general proposal,
I am not talking about assigning every child to
every school for the forthcoming school year but
some skeleton outline as the Court has suggested. .
In doing that I think we are all bound to use the
Swann remedies. As the court indicated there they
are determining there was a right and we must
consider, and I think the parties, all of us should
be directed to consider all of the techniques that
Swann suggests and any other technique which would
provide a similar result.
"It may have taken six months in Los Angeles, your
Honor, to assign every pupil to a school but certainly
it shouldn't take more than a couple weeks to come
in here with a reasonably informed judgment as to
the perimeters of the relief. I think the Court
should set down a fairly rigid schedule and fairly
quick one to come in to get the issue properly before
tne Court." pp 20, 21.
’ Thus, defendant State Board of Education, as the state
authority with the primary, basic and fundamental responsibility in
this field, was given 120 days in which to submit a metropolitan
plan of skeletal nature. For plaintiffs to now take the position
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that the-submission of detailed plans, including pupil assignments,
was intended by the Court's directive is completely contrary to
its October 4, 1971 position, as quoted above. Therefore its
position is untenable. .
2. The metropolitan plan was not to be subject
to “approval" by the plaintiffs.___________
The plaintiffs have taken the position that since the
metropolitan plans submitted by defendant State Board of Education,
as the state authority with the primary, basic and fundamental
responsibility in this field, are not as detailed as they would
wish, the Court should require state defendants to pay for experts
hired by plaintiffs to prepare a metropolitan plan. In support of
this position plaintiffs cite Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board
of Education, 306 F Supp 1299 (1969), aff'd 402 US 1 (1971), and
Jackson v School Board of Lynchburg, Civ No. 534 (WD Va, April 28,
iry/U; . m m e aw aim case m e xoeai uuani had been erdexed Lhxee
times to submit new plans for desegregation of its schools. After
study of its latest plan, it was clear to the Court that under the
board’s proposal the seven black elementary schools in the system
would remain 100% black. It was then that the Court ordered a
desegregation plan to be prepared by an expert. In Jackson, the
district court found that the school board's plan for desegregation
did not comply with constitutional requirements. When the board
indicated that it was unable to devise an alternate plan, the court
allowed the plaintiffs to prepare a plan at the defendants' expense.
The facts in Swann and Jackson differ materially from the
present case where there has been no suggestion that the metropolitan
plans submitted by the defendant State Board of Education, as the
state authority with the primary, basic and fundamental responsibility
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in this field, do not, at least in several of them, define the
perimeters of the metropolitan plan or will not desegregate the
Detroit school system. It is true that the state defendants did
not call witnesses to support these plans since the State Board
of Education had not been able to agree on a recommendation among
tire plans and because defendants Milliken and Kelley had filed
objections to the plans. Nevertheless the persons responsible for
formulation of the plans have been made available to answer plaintiffs'
question concerning the plan which was prepared at the request of
the Court. Indeed plaintiff took the deposition of Dr. Lawrence
Hillman, co-author of the Metropolitan School District Reorganization
Plan and said plan is the basic ingredient of the Neighborhood School
Based Metropolitan Plan. A fair reading of such entire plans indicates
a conclusion by their authors that, educationally speaking, the plans
offer maximum integration of the three county Wayne, Oakland and
Macomb area. Instead of seeking answers from Dr. Hillman and
Mr. Mogk, his co-author, the plaintiffs have chosen to request the
Court to require the state defendants to pay for a different plan
contrary to the Court's directive.
The plaintiffs have objected to the plans submitted by the
State Board of Education, as the state authority with the primary,
basic and fundamental responsibility in this field. A plain reading of
the Court's directive or order indicates that plaintiffs, if they so
desired, could submit alternative plans at their own expense. To
require the state defendants to finance plaintiffs' plan, especially
when the State Board of Education's own skeletal plans have not been
fully developed, was clearly notwithin the intention of the Court on
October 4, 1971 and reduced to writing on November 5, 1971.
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authority with the primary, basic and
fundamental responsibility in this field,
complied fully with the directive of November
5, 1971._______ ____
In compliance with this Court's November 5, 1971 directive,
the defendant State Board of Education,has submitted 3 metropolitan
■plans, which would, the state defendants believe, define the
perimeters of the metropolitan plan and would desegregate the
Detroit public schools. The Governor and the Attorney General have
not prepared a desegregation plan because, as their counsel stated
on October 4, 1971, they do not have the technical expertise for
such an endeavor and because, as pointed out above, the Court had
indicated that the decisions on the perimeters of the plan to be
submitted were left to the State Board of Education. Proceedings
of October 4, 1971, pp 12, 13.
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cite Dr. Porter's statement that the State Board "didn't make a
decision, period," as indicating that the State Board did not submit
any plans to the Court. A fair reading of Dr. Porter's deposition
indicates the contrary:
[MR. DIMOND]
"Let's just hypothesize for a moment. A Judge has
to make a decision affecting the lives of a million
children. Now, are you saying to me as a professional
■ educator and as the Superintendent of Public Instruction
in the State of Michigan, you have no advice to give the
Judge as to which is best?
[DR. PORTER]
"I have given the Judge -- the Judge has before him
the information that I think addresses itself to
all of the questions. The Judge also has a lot of
other advice. I think the State Board of Education
in receiving all of this information, has adopted a
resolution that speaks for itself. It didn't make
a decision, period. ■
"Q. I understand that.
"A, Okay.
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"Q. If x remember correctly, the motion says that
these plans are to be submitted with no recommendation?
"A. That's right." p 83.
It was understood by everyone at the hearing that Dr. Porter
was testifying that the State Board of Education made no decision
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to recommend any one plan to the Court. All of the plans were
submitted in a good faith attempt to meet the Court's request for
assistance in defining the perimeters of the metropolitan plan and
in effectively desegregating the Detroit schools.
It is also clear that the plaintiffs themselves recognized
that the state defendants' obligations concerning the preparation of
plans would be satisfied upon submission of State Board of Education
plans to the Court. In opposing the state defendants' appeal of the
Court's November 5, 1971 ruling, the plaintiffs said:
"In the instant case the Detroit Board defendants
have already submitted plans in accordance with
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briefs are filed in this appeal, the order from
which defendants appeal will have, 'by its terms,
expired.' • Robinson, supra, App. 1 at 3." .
Motion to Dismiss Appeals, Jan. 24, 1972, pp 10-11.
To claim now that the ruling was not complied with by the
submission of State Board of Education plans is a contradictory
position, formulated to suit the convenience of the plaintiffs.
Conclusion
At the time this brief is being written, the Court has before
it at least 5 plans which propose to define the perimeters of the
metropolitan plan and would appear to be capable of desegregating
the Detroit Metropolitan area. These are:
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1. Intervenor Magdowski's plan for a borough
system in the Wayne, Oakland and Macomb area.
2. The State Board of Education's Metropolitan
School District Reorganization Plan.
3. The State Board of Education's Neighborhood
School Based Metropolitan Plan.
4. The State Board of Education's Metropolitan
One-Way Movement Plan.
5. The Detroit School District's Metropolitan Plan.
It appears from the four corners of each of these plans
that each defines the perimeters of the metropolitan plan and any
one of them could provide for the desegregation of the Detroit
school system. Since the hearings on these plans have not been
completed, it appears to be inappropriate at this time to consider
tiie formulation of any new plans.
Earlier in this litigation the plaintiffs sought an order
to require the Detroit school board to finance an intra-district plan
which was to be prepared by plaintiffs' expert. This motion for
costs was not pursued by the plaintiffs but the Detroit board did
cooperate with the plaintiffs in the preparation of a plan. This
plan was found to be constitutionally infirm:
"7. . . . The plan would make the Detroit school
system more identifiably Black, and leave many of
its schools 75 to 90 per cent Black. . . ."
[Findings of March 28, 1972]
Thus, if the Court had ordered the school district to
finance the plan, the expenses involved would have been unwisely
incurred.
The arguments of the plaintiffs are advanced only to
achieve the purpose of requiring someone else to pay for the
plaintiffs' plans. The October 4, 1971 opinion and the November 5,
Order do not indicate that the objectors' plans are to be paid for
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by any of the defendants, but rather are to be paid for by the
objectors themselves. . .
they have followed the directions of, the District Court as required
by the Court's October 4 and November 5 rulings. The school
authorities were required to submit' a plan of desegregation which
was to be skeletal, in that it defined the perimeters of the
metropolitan plan, and was not to provide for pupil assignments.
Five plans have been submitted to the Court and there has not been
a ruling that these plans fail to meet constitutional requirements.
Although the State Board of Education submitted these plans without
recommendation, since they were unable to agree upon them, the con
sultants who prepared these plans'have been made available to the
plaintiffs for purposes of explaining the plans.
Court to deny plaintiffs' motion for an order requiring state
defendants to cooperate fully and openly and for state defendants
to pay for the reasonable costs of a plan of metropolitan desegre
gation prepared by plaintiffs.
In summary, the state defendants assert affirmatively that
WHEREFORE, state defendants respectfully request the
Respectfully submitted
FRANK J. KELLEY
Attorney General
Patrick Kowaleski
Assistant Attorneys General
Attorneys for State Defendants
Business Address:
7 Story Office Building
525 West Ottawa Street
Lansing, Michigan 48913
Dated: April 6, 1972
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CE RTI FI CATE OF ' SE RVICE
I hereby certify that on the 6th day of April, 1972, I
served a true copy of the foregoing State Defendants' Brief
upon each of the following named attorneys of record, by mailing
the same to him by first class mail, postage fully prepaid, addressed
to his last known business address:
Messrs Louis R. Lucas
and William E. Caldwell
Mr. Nathaniel R. Jones .
Messrs. J. Harold Flannery
Paul R. Dimona and Robert Pressman
Mr. E. Winther McCroom
Messrs. Jack Greenberg and
Norman J. Chachkin
Mr. George T. Roumell, Jr.
Mr. Theodore Sachs
n £ . a i t J A a i i u c i £> . f t i t u n t ;
Kenneth B. McConnell
Condit & McGarry
Ml*'. William M. Saxton
Messrs. Douglas H. West and
Robert B . Webster
Mr. Robert J. Lord