Liddell v. BD. OF EDUC. OF CITY OF ST. LOUIS, MO.

814 F. Supp. 788

Craton LIDDELL, et al., Plaintiffs, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, et al., Defendants.

No. 72-0100C(6).

United States District Court, E.D. Missouri, E.D.

February 4, 1993.

William P. Russell, Joseph McDuffie, St. Louis, MO, for Liddell.

Michael A. Middleton, Columbia, MO, William L. Taylor, Washington, DC, Wayne C. Harvey, St. Louis, MO, for Caldwell and NAACP.

Kenneth C. Brostron, Lashly & Baer, St. Louis, MO, for City Board.

Michael J. Fields, Bart A. Matanic, Asst. Missouri Attys. Gen., Jefferson City, MO, John J. Lynch, Asst. Missouri Attys. Gen., St. Louis, MO, David R. Boyd, Comey & Boyd, Washington, DC, for the State.

Andrew J. Minardi, Joseph D. Ferry, St. Louis, MO, for St. Louis County.

Shulamith Simon, Rosenblum Goldenhersh Silverstein & Zafft, St. Louis, MO (Court-appointed), for amicus curiae.

Craig Crenshaw, Jr., Jeremiah Glassman, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Rights Div., Washington, DC, for U.S.

W. Scott Simpson, Dept. of Justice, Federal Programs Branch, Civ. Div., Washington, DC, for U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development.

James J. Wilson, Paul Martin, St. Louis City Counselors, St. Louis, MO, for City of St. Louis.

Anthony J. Sestric, Sestric & Cipolla, St. Louis, MO, for St. Louis Collector of Revenue.

Charles Werner, St. Louis, MO, for Missouri NEA.

Charles R. Oldham, Louis Gilden, St. Louis, MO, for Teachers Local Union 420.

Robert Bartman, Com'r Mo. Dept. of Elementary & Secondary Educ., Jefferson City, MO, for Mo. Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Educ.

Warren M. Brown, Jay Moody, Lake St. Louis, MO (Court-appointed), for Budget Review Committee (BRC).

James Dixon, II, Executive Director, Educ. Monitoring & Advisory Committee, St. Louis, MO (Court-appointed), for Educ. Monitoring & Advisory Committee (EMAC).

Ralph Beacham, Executive Director, Metropolitan Coordinating Committee, Bridgeton, MO (Court-appointed), for Metropolitan Coordinating Committee (MCC).

Susan Uchitelle, Executive Director, Voluntary Interdistrict Coordinating Council, St. Louis, MO (Court-appointed), for Voluntary Interdistrict Coordinating Council (VICC).

Henry D. Menghini, Robert J. Krehbiel, Evans & Dixon, St. Louis, MO (Court-appointed), for St. Louis County School Districts Affton & Lindbergh.

Darold E. Crotzer, Jr., St. Louis, MO (Court-appointed), for Bayless, Jennings, Normandy & Wellston.

George J. Bude, St. Louis, MO (Court-appointed), for Clayton & Hancock Place.

Frank Susman, Susman Shermer Rimmel & Shifrin, St. Louis, MO (Court-appointed) for Ferguson-Florissant.

Robert P. Baine, Jr., Baine & McHugh, Florissant, MO (Court-appointed), for Hazelwood.

Andrew B. Leonard, Buechner McCarthy Leonard Kaemmerer Owen & Laderman, Chesterfield, MO (Court-appointed), for Kirkwood.

Robert G. McClintock, St. Louis, MO (Court-appointed), for Ladue.

Richard Ulrich, Summers Compton Wells & Hamburg, St. Louis, MO (Court-appointed), for Maplewood-Richmond Heights.

John Gianoulakis, Kohn Shands Elbert Gianoulakis & Giljum, St. Louis, MO (Court-appointed), for Mehlville, Pattonville & Rittenour.

James Erwin, R.J. Robertson, Thompson & Mitchell, St. Louis, MO (Court-appointed), for Parkway.

Edward J. Murphy, Jr., Garry K. Seltzer, St. Louis, MO (Court-appointed), for River-view Gardens.

Thomas Tueth, Ian Cooper, Peper Martin Jensen Maichel & Hetlage, St. Louis, MO (Court-appointed), for St. Louis County Special, Rockwood & Brentwood.

Worsham N. Caldwell, Richard G. Hughes, Caldwell Hughes McHugh & Singleton, St. Louis, MO (Court-appointed), for University City.

Kenneth V. Byrne, Schlueter & Byrne, St. Louis, MO (Court-appointed), for Valley Park.

Douglas A. Copeland, Robert W. Copeland, Copeland Gartner & Thompson, St. Louis, MO (Court-appointed), for Webster Groves.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

GUNN, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on Ritenour School District's budget request, L(3347)91. The Budget Review Committee has filed a report on the matter, G(336)92, and the State of Missouri and Ritenour have responded and replied, G(386)92, G(387)92, G(461)92.

In 1986 Ritenour reopened Buder Elementary School, at a cost of $486,000, in part to accommodate voluntary transfer students. On the understanding that there would be 273 elementary school transfer students in Ritenour, which represented 55% of Buder's capacity (500 seats), the Eighth Circuit held that under section X.B.3 of the Settlement Agreement governing this case,¹ the State was obligated to reimburse Ritenour for 55% of the capital costs involved in reopening the school, or $267,300. Liddell v. Board of Ed., 839 F.2d 400, 405 (8th Cir.1988) (Liddell XIV). The number of...