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BENNETT v. MADISON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION

Nos. 28920, 28923, 28924, 28925.

437 F.2d 554 (1970)

Larry BENNETT et al., Plaintiffs, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. MADISON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant. Sonny Wellington HEREFORD et al., Plaintiffs, v. HUNTSVILLE BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant. Catherine Ann MILLER, Plaintiff, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF GADSDEN et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant. George Robert BOYKINS et al., Plaintiffs, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. FAIRFIELD BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 30, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Soloman S. Seay, Jr., Fred D. Gray, Gray, Seay & Langford, Montgomery, Ala., Orzell Billingsley, Jr., Demetrius C. Newton, and Wayman G. Sherrer, U. S. Atty., Birmingham, Ala., J. Levonne Chambers, Jack Greenberg, and Norman C. Amaker, New York City, Frank M. Dunbaugh, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Ralph H. Ford and Joe L. Payne, Huntsville, Ala., Reid B. Barnes, Joseph F. Johnston, Maurice Bishop, and John P. Carlton, Birmingham, Ala., and Frank J. Martin, Gadsden, Ala., for appellees.

Jerris Leonard, Asst. Atty. Gen., David L. Norman, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Brian K. Landsberg, David D. Gregory and Joseph D. Rich, Attys., Civil Rights Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the United States as amicus curiae.

Before RIVES, WISDOM and GODBOLD, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

These cases, heard and submitted together, are appeals from denials by the District Court for the Northern District of Alabama of petitions by the National Education Association, Inc., to intervene in school desegregation cases. The appellant association contends that it was entitled to intervene as a matter of right under Rule 24(a) (2), Fed.R.Civ. P. There is not involved the right to intervene as a matter of...

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