ROGERS v. PAUL

No. 17870.

345 F.2d 117 (1965)

Janice ROGERS, a Minor, Age 16, Patricia Rogers, a Minor, Age 15, by Their Mother and Next Friend, Mrs. Corine Rogers, Appellants, v. Dr. Edgar F. PAUL, Dr. Roger Bost, John M. Yantis, Bruce Shaw, Jack Grober, Douglas G. Rogers, Board of Directors of Special School District of Fort Smith, Arkansas; Chris Corbin, Superintendent of Schools of Special School District of Fort Smith, Arkansas; Special School District of Fort Smith, Arkansas, a Corporation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

May 7, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Derrick A. Bell, Jr., New York City, made argument for appellants and filed brief with Jack Greenberg and John W. Walker, New York City, and George Howard, Jr., Pine Bluff, Ark.

Bruce H. Shaw, of Shaw, Jones & Shaw, Fort Smith, Ark., made argument for appellees and filed brief with John S. Daily, of Daily & Woods, Fort Smith, Ark.

Before VOGEL, MATTHES and MEHAFFY, Circuit Judges.


MATTHES, Circuit Judge.

In Goss v. Board of Education, 373 U.S. 683, 83 S.Ct. 1405, 10 L.Ed.2d 632, decided June 3, 1963, the Supreme Court held unconstitutional so-called voluntary transfer provisions incorporated in the formal desegregation plans adopted by the school boards of the Knoxville, Tennessee and the Davidson County, Tennessee School Districts. In the desegregation plan adopted by the school board of the Special School District...

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