Case Name: CARTER et al. v. WEST FELICIANA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD et al.
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1970-01-14
Citations: 396 U.S. 290
Docket Number: No. 944
Parties: CARTER et al. v. WEST FELICIANA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD et al.
Judges: with whom Mr. Justice White joins,
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 396
Pages: 290–294

Head Matter:
CARTER et al. v. WEST FELICIANA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD et al.
No. 944.
Decided January 14, 1970
Richard B. Sobol, Murphy W. Bell, Robert F. Collins, Norman C. Amaker, and Melvyn Zarr for petitioners in No. 944. Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit III, Mr. Amaker, Mr. Zarr, Oscar W. Adams, Jr., John H. Ruffin, Jr., and Earl M. Johnson for petitioners in No. 972.
John F. Ward, Jr., for respondents in No. 944. Robert C. Cannada and Thomas H. Watkins for Jackson Municipal Separate School District et al., Hardy Lott for Marshall County Board of Education, Reid B. Barnes for Jefferson County Board of Education, Edwin L. Brobston for Board of Education of the City of Bessemer et al., Palmer Pillans and George F. Wood for Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County et al., Frank C. Jones and Wallace Miller, Jr., for Bibb County Board of Education et al., H. A. Aultman for Houston County Board of Education, W. Fred Turner for Board of Public Instruction of Bay County, and Sam T. Dell, Jr., for Board of Public Instruction of Alachua County et al., respondents in No. 972.
Briefs of amici curiae in Nos. 944 and 972 were filed by Solicitor General Griswold for the United States, and by Mr. Ward for the Louisiana Teachers Association. Rivers Buford, Jr., and Gerald Mager filed a brief for the State Board of Education of Florida as amicus curiae in No. 972.
Together with No. 972, Singleton et al. v. Jackson Municipal Separate School District et al., also on petition for writ of certiorari to the same court.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Insofar as the Court of Appeals authorized deferral of student desegregation beyond February 1, 1970, that court misconstrued our holding in Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, ante, p. 19. Accordingly, the petitions for writs of certiorari are granted, the judgments of the Court of Appeals are reversed, and the cases remanded to that court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. The judgments in these cases are to issue forthwith.