FAHEY v. LAXALT

Civ. No. LV-1272.

313 F.Supp. 417 (1970)

Patricia FAHEY, Bradley Haskins, George Lawson and Marcus White, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Paul LAXALT, individually, and as the Governor of the State of Nevada, John Koontz, individually, and as the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada, the Nevada State Board of Education, Louis Bervegin, Donald Cooper, Mary Fulstone, George E. Harris, Lloyd L. Jones, Ronald Logar, Samuel C. McMullen and Hugh M. White, individually and as members of the State Board of Education of the State of Nevada, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Nevada.

April 30, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Canter, Las Vegas, Nev., for plaintiffs.

Harvey Dickerson Atty. Gen. of Nevada, Carson City, Nev., for defendants.

Before MERRILL, Circuit Judge, and FOLEY and Thompson, District Judges.


OPINION

ROGER D. FOLEY, District Judge:

This is a class action commenced by four residents and qualified electors1 of the State of Nevada and of its Educational Supervision District No. 5, seeking declaratory judgment and an injunction to redress alleged deprivation of rights guaranteed to them and to others of their class by the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

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