OFFERMANN v. NITKOWSKI

No. 411, Docket 30337.

378 F.2d 22 (1967)

Karl P. OFFERMANN and Mary E. Offermann, Individually and as Parents and Next Friends of Children Eligible to Attend the Public Schools of the City of Buffalo, New York, and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Earthly J. Gaskin, Geraldine Gaskin, Robert E. Jackson and Anna B. Jackson, Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. Anthony J. NITKOWSKI, as president and a member of the Board of Education of the City of Buffalo, New York, Peter Gust Economou, Lydia T. Wright, Alfreda W. Slominski, Carmelo A. Parlato, Bernard S. Rosenblat and George F. Goodyear, as members of the Board of Education of the City of Buffalo, New York, Joseph Manch, as Superintendent of Schools of the City of Buffalo, New York, James E. Allen, Jr., as Commissioner of Education of the State of New York, and The Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, Defendants-Appellees, Yerby Dixon, Newton Garber, Blanche Thomas, Erwin Johnson, Evelyn Perkins and Julia Johns, Defendant-Intervenors-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided May 19, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter L. Parrino of Parrino & Cooper, Buffalo, N. Y., for plaintiffs-appellants.

John J. Naples, Asst. Corporation Counsel, Buffalo, N. Y. (Anthony Manguso, Corporation Counsel, on the brief), for Buffalo Board of Education and Joseph Manch, appellees.

John P. Jehu, Albany, N. Y. (Charles A. Brind, Jr., Albany, N. Y., on the brief), for James E. Allen, Jr., and Board of Regents, appellees.

Maria L. Marcus, New York City (Herman Schwartz, Buffalo, N. Y., Robert L. Carter and Joan Franklin, New York City, on the brief), for defendants-intervenors-appellees.

Before MOORE, SMITH and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges.


J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by a group of parents in Buffalo, New York, from an order of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, John O. Henderson, Judge, which refused to convene a three-judge court sought under 28 U.S.C. §§ 2281, 22841 and dismissed their suit against the Buffalo Superintendent of Schools and Board of Education, the Commissioner of Education of the State...

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