WILLIAMS v. IBERVILLE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD

Civ. A. Nos. 2921, 70-51.

314 F.Supp. 1104 (1970)

James WILLIAMS et al., Plaintiffs, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. IBERVILLE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD et al., Defendant. Alexander CARTER, Jr., et al. v. Sam DISTEFANO, Individually, and as Superintendent of Iberville Parish Schools, et al.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division.

June 30, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick Hardin, Civil Rights Division, Dept. of Justice, New Orleans, La., for government.

John F. Ward, Jr., Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen. of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, La., Samuel Cashio, Maringouin, La., for defendants.

Gibson Tucker, Jr., New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs in Edley v. Iberville Parish School Board in Eighteenth Judicial District Court.

A. P. Tureaud, New Orleans, La., Alfred E. Mitchell, Plaquemine, La., Norman Chachkin, New York City, for plaintiffs.


WEST, Chief Judge:

These consolidated actions grew out of the difficult task of converting the Iberville Parish School system from a dual system to a non-discriminatory unitary system. They involve complaints by two of the plaintiffs, Mr. Arnett D. James, Jr. and Mr. Wendol O. Williams, concerning their transfer and re-assignment by the School Board from positions of "principal" to newly created positions of "coordinating principals." Succinctly stated, Mr. James...

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