GAINES v. DOUGHERTY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION

No. 25776.

392 F.2d 669 (1968)

Shirley GAINES, Patricia Ann Gaines, Marian Gaines, Minors, by Monroe Gaines, their father and next friend, et al., Appellants, v. DOUGHERTY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

March 14, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Stephen Ralston, New York City, C. B. King, Albany, Ga., for appellants.

J. W. Walters, Albany, Ga., for appellees.

Before TUTTLE and GOLDBERG, Circuit Judges, and HOOPER, District Judge.


TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, denying appellants' motion for rehearing and for modification of its order in a school desegregation case, the appellants have filed a motion for summary reversal.

Briefly, the history of the litigation to require an end to segregated schools in Dougherty County, Georgia, so far as here relevant, shows that on August 19, 1966, the district...

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