Document: 50 L.Ed.2d 373 97 S.Ct. 543 429 U.S. 165 Billy D. COOK et al., petitioners,v.Roger W. HUDSON al No. 75-503 Supreme Court of the United States December 7, 1976 On writ certiorari to Appeals for Fifth Circuit. Dec. 1976. PER CURIAM. 1 Certiorari was granted consider question presented: whether, consistently with First and Fourteenth Amendments, a Mississippi public school board may terminate employment teachers sending their children not schools, but private racially segregated school. However, since grant certiorari, Runyon v. McCrary, 427 160, 96 2586, 49 415 (1976), held that 42 U.S.C. § 1981 prohibits private, commercially operated, nonsectarian schools from denying admission prospective students because they are Negroes. Moreover, statute, Miss.Code Ann. 37-9-59 (Supp.1976), enacted in 1974 after action here complained of, boards "from or reemployment any person . single reason eligible child such does attend system which (person) is employed." Though cited record at time granting writ, examination merits on oral argument light McCrary satisfies us improvident. Accordingly, dismissed as improvidently granted. Cf. Rice Sioux City Cemetery, 349 70, 75 614, 99 L.Ed. 897 (1955). 2 Mr. Chief Justice BURGER, concurring result. 3 I join Court's disposition this case. In doing so, emphasize our decision dismiss intimates no view when, if ever, comparable employees be required, condition employment, enroll particular refrain them they, parents, sole discretion, desirable. Few familial decisions immune governmental interference parents' choice children, so long chosen otherwise meets educational standards imposed by State. See Pierce Society Sisters, 268 510, 45 571, 69 1070 (1925); Meyer Nebraska, 262 390, 43 625, 67 1042 (1923); Wisconsin Yoder, 406 205, 92 1526, 32 15 (1972).

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