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SWANN v. CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG BOARD OF EDUCATION

Civ. Nos. 1974, 2631.

312 F.Supp. 503 (1970)

James E. SWANN et al., Plaintiffs, v. CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG BOARD OF EDUCATION, a public body corporate, William E. Poe, Henderson Belk, Dan Hood, Ben F. Huntley, Betsey Kelly, Coleman W. Kerry, Jr., Julia Maulden, Sam McNinch, III, Carlton G. Watkins, the North Carolina State Board of Education, a public body corporate, and Dr. A. Craig Phillips, Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of North Carolina, Defendants, Honorable Robert W. Scott, Governor of the State of North Carolina, Honorable A. C. Davis, Controller of the State Department of Public Instruction, Honorable William K. McLean, Judge of the Superior Court of Mecklenburg County, Tom B. Harris, G. Don Roberson, A. Breece Breland, James M. Postell, William E. Rorie, Jr., Chalmers R. Carr, Robert T. Wilson, and the Concerned Parents Association, an unincorporated association in Mecklenburg County, James Carson and William H. Booe, Additional Parties-Defendant. Mrs. Robert Lee MOORE et al., Plaintiffs, v. CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG BOARD OF EDUCATION and William C. Self, Superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Schools, Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. North Carolina, Charlotte Division.

Decided April 28, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. LeVonne Chambers, Chambers, Stein, Ferguson & Lanning, Charlotte, N. C., and James M. Nabrit, III, New York City, for plaintiffs James E. Swann and others.

William J. Waggoner, Weinstein, Waggoner, Sturges, Odom & Bigger and Benjamin Horack, Charlotte, N. C., for defendants Charlotte-Mecklenburg Bd. of Ed. and others.

Ralph Moody, Deputy Atty. Gen., and Andrew A. Vanore, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for State defendants and additional parties-defendant.

William H. Booe and Whiteford S. Blakeney, Charlotte, N. C., for other additional parties-defendant and plaintiffs Mrs. Robert Lee Moore and others.

Before CRAVEN and BUTZNER, Circuit Judges, and McMILLAN, District Judge.

CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:

This three-judge district court was convened pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2281 et seq. (1964), to consider a single aspect of the above-captioned case: the constitutionality and impact of a state statute, N.C.Gen.Stat. § 115-176.1 (Supp.1969), known as the antibussing law, on this suit brought to desegregate the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system. We hold a portion of N.C.Gen.Stat. § 115-176.1 unconstitutional because it may interfere...

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