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SCHOOL BOARD OF CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS, VA. v. ATKINS

Nos. 7430, 7438.

246 F.2d 325 (1957)

The SCHOOL BOARD OF the CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA, and R. O. Nelson, Division Superintendent of Schools of the City of Newport News, Virginia, Appellants, v. Jerome A. ATKINS et al., Appellees. The SCHOOL BOARD OF the CITY OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, and J. J. Brewbaker, Division Superintendent of Schools of the City of Norfolk, Virginia, Appellants, v. Leola Pearl BECKETT et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 13, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Justin Moore, Richmond, Va. (Harry L. Nachman, City Atty., Newport News, Va., Archibald G. Robertson, John W. Riely, T. Justin Moore, Jr., Richmond, Va., on the brief), for appellants in No. 7430. W. R. C. Cocke, Norfolk, Va. (Leonard H. Davis, City Atty., Leigh D. Williams, Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for appellants in No. 7438. J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Atty. Gen. of Virginia (Henry T. Wickham, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. of Virginia, on the brief), for appellants in both cases.

Spottswood W. Robinson, III, Oliver W. Hill, Richmond, Va., for appellees in both cases (W. Hale Thompson, Philip S. Walker, Newport News, Va., on the brief for appellees in No. 7430; Victor J. Ashe, J. Hugo Madison, Norfolk, Va., Thurgood Marshall, New York City, on the brief, for appellees in No. 7438).

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

PER CURIAM.

These are appeals from injunctive decrees forbidding racial discrimination in the public schools of Norfolk and Newport News, Virginia, and are controlled in all material respects by our decision in the City of Charlottesville and Arlington County cases. School Board of City of Charlottesville, Virginia v. Allen, 4 Cir., 240 F.2d 59, certiorari denied 353 U.S. 910, 77 S.Ct. 667, 1 L.Ed. 2d 664. It is argued that, on the...

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