ROBINSON v. SHELBY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION

Nos. 20123, 20124.

429 F.2d 11 (1970)

Claude Bernard ROBINSON and Julia D. Robinson, Infants, By Melvin Robinson, their father and next friend et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SHELBY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants-Appellants, United States of America, by Ramsey Clark, Acting Attorney General, Plaintiff-Appellee-Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

June 25, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman J. Chachkin, New York City, R. B. Sugarmon, Jr., Ratner, Sugarmon, Lucas & Willis, Memphis, Tenn., Jack Greenberg, Norman J. Chachkin, New York City, on the brief, for Claude Bernard Robinson et al.

R. Lee Winchester, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., Goff, Winchester & Walsh, Memphis, Tenn., on the brief, for Shelby County Board of Education et al.

Patrick Hardin, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., Jerris Leonard, Asst. Atty. Gen., James P. Turner, Brian Landsberg, Craig Crenshaw, Sara J. Beery, Attys., Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., of counsel, for the United States.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, and WEICK and BROOKS, Circuit Judges.


ORDER

Plaintiffs have appealed from an order of the District Court denying their motion to require the defendant, Shelby County Board of Education, to adopt immediately a unitary public school system in conformity with the Supreme Court's decision in Alexander v. Holmes County Bd. of Educ., 396 U.S. 19, 90 S.Ct. 29, 24 L.Ed.2d 19 (1969).

The Board of Education has appealed from an order of the District Court which approved...

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