February 6, 2004

Federal Court Upholds Plan to Settle Mississippi Desegregation Case

By SARA HEBEL

A federal appeals court upheld a $503-million plan to end Mississippi's long-running college-desegregation lawsuit in a unanimous decision issued last week. Many of the original plaintiffs in the case had opposed the settlement and had asked the court to reject it.

Opponents of the settlement still may appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit brings Mississippi one step closer to closing a lawsuit that

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