EVERETT v. PITT COUNTY BD. OF EDUC.

No. 13-2312.

788 F.3d 132 (2015)

Ronda EVERETT; Melissa Grimes; Caroline Sutton; Christopher W. Taylor, next friends of minor children attending Pitt County Schools; Pitt County Coalition for Educating Black Children, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Juvenile Female 1; The Greenville Parents Association, Intervenors/Plaintiffs, v. PITT COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, public body corporate, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: June 3, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Mark Dorosin , University of North Carolina Center for Civil Rights, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for Appellants. Kenneth Alexander Soo , Tharrington Smith LLP, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Ezra D. Rosenberg , Princeton, New Jersey, Lauren Kurtz , New York, New York, C.B. Buente , Dechert LLP, Washington, D.C.; Brenda Shum , Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Deborah R. Stagner , Tharrington Smith LLP, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge DIAZ wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge NIEMEYER joined. Judge WYNN wrote dissenting opinion.


This appeal arises from two desegregation orders entered in 1970 by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. The district court determined then that the Greenville City and Pitt County Boards of Education were operating racially segregated schools and directed them to submit desegregation...

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