UNITED STATES v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CITY OF BESSEMER

Nos. 26582-26584.

417 F.2d 846 (1969)

UNITED STATES of America, and Doris Elaine Brown et al., Appellants, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF BESSEMER et al., Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, and Dwight Armstrong et al., Appellants, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA et al., Appellees. UNITED STATES of America and Linda Stout, by her father and next friend, Blevin Stout, Appellants, v. JEFFERSON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 1, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No. 26582:

Harvey M. Burg, Oscar W. Adams, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., David H. Hood, Jr., Bessemer, Ala., Jack Greenberg, Norman C. Amaker, New York City, for appellants.

Macon L. Weaver, U. S. Atty., Birmingham, Ala., Lester Scall, Nathan Lewin, Merle W. Loper, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Stephen J. Pollak, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the United States.

Reid B. Barnes, Birmingham, Ala., J. Howard McEniry, Jr., Bessemer, Ala., MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen. of Alabama, Gordon Madison, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Ala., Montgomery, Ala., for appellees.

No. 26583:

Harvey M. Burg, Oscar W. Adams, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., Jack Greenberg, Charles H. Jones, Jr., Norman C. Amaker, New York City, for appellants.

Nathan Lewin, Kenneth L. Johnson, Lester Scall, Merle W. Loper, Attys., Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., Macon L. Weaver, U. S. Atty., Birmingham, Ala., Stephen J. Pollak, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the United States.

Reid B. Barnes, Birmingham, Ala., MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen. of Ala., Gordon Madison, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Ala., Montgomery, Ala., for appellees.

No. 26584:

Harvey M. Burg, Oscar W. Adams, Birmingham, Ala., Jack Greenberg, Norman C. Amaker, New York City, for appellants.

Macon L. Weaver, U. S. Atty., Birmingham, Ala., Lester Scall, Nathan Lewin, Merle W. Loper, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Stephen J. Pollak, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the United States.

Reid B. Barnes, Birmingham, Ala., Maurice Bishop, Birmingham, Ala., MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen. of Alabama, Gordon Madison, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Ala., Montgomery, Ala., for appellees.

Before WISDOM, BELL, and GODBOLD, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

These school cases involve public school systems in Bessemer, Birmingham, and Jefferson County, Alabama. The central issue in each case is whether the court-approved plan carrries out this Court's directive that interim goals be established for achieving total faculty desegregation by 1970-71. In another matter before this Court, cases involving two of these same school districts (Jefferson County and Bessemer County) were consolidated for purposes of...

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