                 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                      for the Fifth Circuit

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                           No. 90-1031
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                 JULIA DONELSON HOUSTON, ET AL.,
                                            Plaintiffs-Appellees,
                              VERSUS

                    RUTH M. THOMAS, ET AL.,
                                                       Defendants,
     STATE OF LOUISIANA and LAKE PROVIDENCE PORT COMMISSION,
                                Intervening Defendants-Appellants.
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          Appeal from the United States District Court
            for the Southern District of Mississippi
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       ON REMAND FROM THE THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT

                       (February 12, 1993)

Before POLITZ, Chief Judge, and DUHÉ, Circuit Judge1.

PER CURIAM:

     As directed by the Supreme Court2, this matter is remanded to

the district court which shall dismiss the claims of Louisiana

against Mississippi for lack of jurisdiction, and which shall

proceed to determine the claims of the private litigants.

     REMANDED WITH INSTRUCTIONS.




1
   Judge Alvin B. Rubin was a member of the original panel which
heard this case but he died on June 11, 1991. This matter is being
handled by a quorum. 28 U.S.C. § 46(d).
2
   Mississippi Et Al v. Louisiana Et Al, ___ U.S. ___, 113 S. Ct.
542 (1992).
