Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit March 27, 1978, 76-1017 (Mrs. Vella WRIGHT and Miss Saora Myers, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, Defendant-Appellant)

GEE, Circuit Judge:

This cause presents a single, dispositive issue. It is whether the

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requirement — that nonracial objective criteria be developed and employed in selecting among the staff of a given school district those of its professional staff who are to be demoted or dismissed in the event of a general reduction in force occasioned by desegregation — applies even though