ADAMS v. SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 5, ORANGEBURG COUNTY, S. C.

Civ. A. No. 8301.

271 F.Supp. 579 (1967)

Rudolph W. ADAMS, Brenda Adams and Theodore R. Adams, Jr., Minors, by Theodore R. Adams, Sr., their father and next friend et al., Plaintiffs, v. SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 5, ORANGEBURG COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, a public body corporate, and Larry R. Wells, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of School District Number 5, Orangeburg County, Dr. Harry Atwell, R. S. Williams, Jr., Talley Smith and Edgar Culler, Members, Board of Trustees of School District Number 5, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, and H. A. Marshall, Superintendent of School District Number 5, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, Defendants.

United States District Court D. South Carolina, Orangeburg Division.

February 28, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew J. Perry, Lincoln C. Jenkins, Jr., Columbia, S. C., Zack E. Townsend, Earl W. Coblyn, Orangeburg, S. C., Jack Greenberg, Robert Belton, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Sims & Sims, James A. Moss, Jerry M. Hughes, Jr., Orangeburg, S. C., David W. Robinson, Columbia, S. C., C. Walker Limehouse, Orangeburg, S. C., for defendants.


ORDER

SIMONS, District Judge.

This court by its Order of August 12, 1964 (D.C., 232 F.Supp. 692) directed the School Board for Orangeburg District No. 5 to desegregate its school system and to assign pupils on criteria detailed in that Order.

On August 22, 1964 the plaintiffs moved to vacate or amend this Order as not in compliance with the constitutional rights of the plaintiffs in that the plan was vague, did...

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