KNIGHT v. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

Civ. No. 3129.

200 F.Supp. 174 (1961)

Pauline E. KNIGHT et al., v. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION et al.

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

December 16, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Z. Alexander Looby, Avon N. Williams, Jr., Looby & Williams, Nashville, Tenn., Jack Greenberg, New York City, for plaintiffs.

George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., Milton P. Rice, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendants.


WILLIAM E. MILLER, Chief Judge.

In this action the plaintiffs, thirteen negro students of Tennessee A & I State University, challenge upon constitutional grounds their suspension from the University at the end of the 1960-1961 school year. They contend that the action taken by the University through its discipline committee violated the plaintiffs' rights under the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, in that such action was arbitrary...

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