HAMM v. COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD OF ARLINGTON COUNTY, VA.

No. 7776.

264 F.2d 945 (1959)

E. Leslie HAMM, Jr., an infant, by E. Leslie Hamm, Sr., his father and next friend, et al., Appellants, v. COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD OF ARLINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA and Ray E. Reid, Division Superintendent of Schools, Arlington County, Virginia, Appellees. COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD OF ARLINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA and Ray E. Reid, Division Superintendent of Schools, Arlington County, Virginia, Appellants, v. Ronald DESKINS, Michael Gerard Jones, Lance Dwight Newman and Gloria Delores Thompson, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 19, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank D. Reeves, Washington, D. C. (Oliver W. Hill, Richmond, Va., James M. Nabrit, III, Washington, D. C., S. W. Robinson, III, Richmond, Va., Otto L. Tucker, Alexandria, Va., Robert L. Carter, Martinsville, Va., James M. Nabrit, Jr., Herbert O. Reid, and James A. Washington, Jr., Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellants E. Leslie Hamm, Jr., and others and appellees Ronald Deskins and others.

James H. Simmonds and Frank L. Ball, Arlington, Va. (Albertis S. Harrison, Jr., Atty. Gen. of Virginia, and Henry T. Wickham, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. of Virginia, on the brief), for appellees and appellants County School Board of Arlington County, Virginia.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and SOPER and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

In our opinion in this case, filed January 23, 1959, 263 F.2d 226, we disposed of the appeal insofar as four Negro students were concerned by affirming as to them the judgment of the District Judge, directing their immediate admission into the Stratford Junior High School in Arlington County, Virginia. We held for further examination and study the cases of twenty-six additional Negro students as to whom the denial of transfers...

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