LITTLE ROCK — Lawyers for the Pulaski County Special School District have asked a federal judge to deny party status for the newly-formed Jacksonville School District in the decades-old desegregation case.
U.S. District Court Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. earlier this month asked the parties in the case to respond to a request from the Jacksonville School District to be recognized as a full party in order to protect the district's interests in desegregation lawsuit decisions.
The district will not officially separate from Pulaski until June 2016.
The Pualski lawyers asked the judge to deny the request, "but remain open-minded."
The Joshua Intervenors -- the group of black parents and students who filed the original desegregation case -- had not responded as of Tuesday afternoon.