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Case Files, Alexander v. Holmes Hardbacks. Order Transferring Lauderdale County Case, 1974. 83e8542a-cf67-f011-bec2-6045bdd81421. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/b995b8cf-7a3c-4fc0-9c2c-55c05be43d31/order-transferring-lauderdale-county-case. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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FRANKLIN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, 

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(Civil Action No. 4256(J) ) 

Nos. 28030, 28042 

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Pursuant to the decision of the Supreme Court in 

Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, 1969, 396 U.S. 19, 
    

90 s.Ct. 29, 24 L.Ed.2d4 19, this Court has retained jurisdiction 

of the within captioned school cases pending the desegregation 

of each system. 

Subsequent to this decision of the Supreme Court, the 

following orders were entered by this Court with respect to 

Lauderdale County School District: 

(1) United States v. Hinds County School Board, 5 Cir., 
    

November 7, 1969, 423 F.2d 1264 (Lauderdale County School 

District); 

(2) United States of America v. Lauderdale County 

School District, dated November 19, 1969. 

Meanwhile the semi-annual status reports required by 

    

our decision in United States v. Hinds County School Board, 

5 ¢ir., 1970, 433 F.24 611, 618-19, have been filed thtobah 

and including October 15, 1973, 

It now appearing that the Lauderdale County School 

District school system has been and is being maintained 

as a unitary school system in compliance with the aforesaid 

orders, and it further appearing that it would be appropriate 

 



  

to transfer jurisdiction of the case to the district court 

under a final order there to be entered as follows, it is 

ORDERED: 

(1) Jurisdiction of Civil Action No. 1367(E), United 

States of America, Plaintiff, v. Lauderdale County School 

District, et al., Defendants, is hereby transferred to the 

United States District Court for the Southern District of 

Mississippi; : 

(2) Said case may be placed on the inactive docket of 

that court subject to being reopened for good cause shown 

on the application of any party, or intervenor, or sua 

sponte; 

(3) The aforesaid orders entered by this Court shall 

be considered as the mandate of this Court and are to be 

made the order of the district court; 

(4) The reports required by United States v. Hinds 
  

County School Board, 433 F.2d 618-19, supra, may be dis- 
  

continued in the event copies of the Summary Reports (Forms 

101 and 102) which are filed annually with the Department of 

Health, Education and Welfare, along with a report showing 

faculty and staff assignments as required in the Hinds County 
  

type of report and faculty and staff hiring by race if such 

information is not reflected in the HEW Summary Reports, are 

filed simultaneously with the district court and served upon 

counsel for plaintiffs and amicus curiae, and are retained for 

a period of two years by the district court for examination 

by counsel for the parties herein or amicus curiae. As an 

alternative to filing the HEW reports, the defendant school 

districts may continue to file the Hinds County type of report 
  

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