UNITED STATES v. SCHOOL BOARD OF FRANKLIN CITY, VIRGINIA

Nos. 14276-14278.

428 F.2d 373 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. SCHOOL BOARD OF FRANKLIN CITY, VIRGINIA, and W. B. Blanks, Division Superintendent of Schools of Franklin, Virginia, Appellees. Alex L. COVINGTON et al., Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD OF SOUTH-AMPTON COUNTY et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 11, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David D. Gregory, Atty., Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice (Brian P. Gettings, U. S. Atty. for Eastern District of Virginia, Jerris Leonard, Asst. Atty. Gen. of United States, David L. Norman, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., and Brian K. Landsberg, Chief, Education Section, Department of Justice, on the brief), for the United States of America, in Nos. 14,276, 14,277 and 14,278.

Henry T. Wickham, Richmond, Va. (Mays, Valentine, Davenport & Moore, Richmond, Va., and J. Edward Moyler, Jr., Franklin, Va., Moyler & Moyler, Franklin, Va., on the brief), for appellees, in Nos. 14,276 and 14,278.

William F. Davis, Suffolk, Va., for appellant in No. 14,277.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, SOBELOFF, BOREMAN, BRYAN, WINTER, CRAVEN, and BUTZNER, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.


ORDER

We consolidated these appeals for briefing and argument in light of Carter v. West Feliciana Parish School Bd., 396 U.S. 290, 90 S.Ct. 608, 24 L.Ed.2d 477 (1970); Alexander v. Holmes County Bd. of Ed., 396 U.S. 19, 90 S.Ct. 29, 24 L.Ed.2d 19 (1969); Stanley v. Darlington County School District, 424 F.2d 195 (4th Cir.), cert. denied 398 U.S. 909, 90 S.Ct. 1690...

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