FREEMAN v. GOULD SPECIAL SCH. DIST. OF LINCOLN COUNTY, ARK.

No. 19016.

405 F.2d 1153 (1969)

Jesse FREEMAN et al., Appellants, v. The GOULD SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT OF LINCOLN COUNTY, ARKANSAS, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

January 15, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Conrad K. Harper, New York City, for appellants, Jack Greenberg and Michael Meltsner, New York City, and John W. Walker and Norman J. Chachkin, Little Rock, Ark., and George Howard, Pine Bluff, Ark., on the brief.

G. Ross Smith and Robert V. Light, Little Rock, Ark., for appellees, Herschel H. Friday, Little Rock, Ark., on the brief.

Before BLACKMUN, GIBSON and LAY, Circuit Judges.


FLOYD R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs, six Negro school teachers, with the support of the Arkansas Teachers Association, Inc., seek to compel the defendant Gould Special School District to renew their annual teaching contracts and in addition request damages and attorneys' fees against all the defendants.1

In May 1967, the individual plaintiffs received notice from the defendant Gould Special School District that their teaching...

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