Correspondence from Judge Keady to Clerk Re: Order for Dismissal

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January 21, 1976

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  • Case Files, Henry v. Clarksdale Hardbacks. Correspondence from Judge Keady to Clerk Re: Order for Dismissal, 1976. 3235a522-8518-f111-8341-7c1e527f53b4. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/819ec059-cde2-4344-90d9-c7a0d2cd8c5a/correspondence-from-judge-keady-to-clerk-re-order-for-dismissal. Accessed April 01, 2026.

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NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI 

POST OFFICE DRAWER 190 

GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPP]I 28701 

January 21, 1976 
wWirLtiam C, KEADY 

CHIEF JUDGE 

Mrs. Jean Trawick, Deputy Clerk 
United States District Court 

I Clarksdale, Mississippi 3%(|\ 

Re: Henry v. Clarksdale School 
No. DC 64-28-K 

Dear Jean: 

For the jacket file I am enclosing Order in the 
above case, which I have today signed. 

Copy is being sent to counsel listed below. 

Yours very truly, 

Y 

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William C. Keady v/ 

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Enclosure 

cc: Honorable Melvyn R. Leventhal 
NAACP Legal Defense Fund 
Suite 2030, .10 Columbus Circle 
New York, New York 10019 

Honorable Semmes Luckett 

Clarksdale, Mississippi 38614 



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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI 

DELTA DIVISION 

REBECCA E. HENRY, ET AL, Plaintiffs 

¥. RO. DC 64-28-K 

CLARKSDALE MUNICIPAL SEPARATE 

SCHOOL DISTRICT, ET AL, Defendants 

ORDER 

The court has before it the motion of defendants for 

a final order of dismissal in this school case, and noting 

that appeals have been taken from the order of this court 

dated November 10, 1975, respecting allowance of attorney 

fees for plaintiffs’ counsel, and the order of this court 

dated December 11, 1975, in the companion case styled Joseph 

Hardy v. Leon L. Porter, et al, No. DC 74-103-K, and being of 

the opinion that defendants' motion should be held in abeyance 

pending the final outcome of the aforesaid appeals to the 

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the 

court,of its own motion, defers consideration of defendants’ 

motion for dismissal until final appellate action on the two 

pending appeals. Plaintiffs are excused from responding to the 

motion until further notice. 

This, 21st day of January, 1976. 

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