UNITED STATES v. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CRISP COUNTY, GEORGIA

Nos. 27446, 27768.

417 F.2d 1071 (1969)

UNITED STATES of America, by John MITCHELL, Attorney General, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CRISP COUNTY, GEORGIA, et al.; the Board of Education of Webster County, Georgia, et al.; the Board of Education of Decatur County, Georgia, et al.; the Board of Education of Screven County, Georgia, et al., Defendants-Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, by John N. MITCHELL, Attorney General, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 3, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd M. Buford, U. S. Atty., Walker P. Johnson, Jr.. Macon, Ga., John A. Bleveans, Michael J. Hoare, Merle W. Loper, Gary L. Betz, Reuben Ortenberg, David D. Gregory, Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Washington D. C., Donald H. Fraser, U. S. Atty., Jerris Leonard, Asst. Atty. Gen., David L. Norman, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert T. Moore, Fletcher Farrington, Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Graydon D. Reddick, Cordele, Ga., William E. Smith, Smith, Crisp & Hargrove, Americus, Ga., J. Willis Conger, Conger & Conger, Bainbridge, Ga., J. Vernon Patrick, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., William M. Fulcher, Augusta, Ga., Graydon D. Reddick, Wright, Reddick & Faircloth, Cordele, Ga., W. W. Larsen, Jr., Dublin, Ga., Rowland & Rowland, Wrightsville, Ga., for appellees.

Before WISDOM and MORGAN, Circuit Judges, and DAVIS, Judge of the United States Court of Claims.


PER CURIAM:

We reverse and remand the instant cases for further consideration in light of Green v. County Board of New Kent County, Virginia, 1968, 391 U.S. 430, 88 S.Ct. 1689, 20 L.Ed.2d 716, and United States v. Montgomery County Board of Education, 1969, 395 U.S. 225, 89 S.Ct. 1670, 23 L.Ed.2d 263, and in light of the following recent decisions of this Court: United States v. Choctaw County Board of...

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