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STRICKLAND v. BURNS

Civ. A. No. 4010.

256 F.Supp. 824 (1966)

Roscoe L. STRICKLAND, Jr., et al. v. T. P. BURNS et al.

United States District Court M. D. Tennessee, Nashville Division.

July 1, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Wardlaw Steele, Gullett, Steele & Sanford, Nashville, Tenn., for plaintiffs.

William T. Sellers, Murfreesboro, Tenn., Edwin F. Hunt, Reber F. Boult, Jr., Boult, Hunt, Cummings & Conners, Nashville, Tenn., for defendants.

Before HARRY PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge, and WILLIAM E. MILLER and FRANK GRAY, Jr., District Judges.

OPINION

GRAY, District Judge.

This action was instituted by plaintiffs for a declaratory judgment that the provisions of Chapter 426 of the Private Acts of Tennessee, 1943, as amended, pertaining to the apportionment of the Rutherford County School Commission, violate rights secured to them by the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and are, therefore, void. Injunctive relief was also...

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