HEGLER v. BOARD OF ED. OF BEARDEN SCH. DIST., BEARDEN, ARK.

No. 20569.

447 F.2d 1078 (1971)

Eve V. HEGLER, and the Arkansas Teachers Association, Inc., Appellants, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the BEARDEN SCHOOL DISTRICT, BEARDEN, ARKANSAS, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

September 9, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Lavey, Walker, Kaplan, Lavey & Mays, Little Rock, Ark., for appellants.

William I. Prewett, El Dorado, Ark., for appellees.

Before JOHNSEN and ROSS, Circuit Judges and HARPER, District Judge.


HARPER, District Judge.

This is an equitable action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983 and 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3) (4),1 claiming discrimination based on race by the Board of Education of the Bearden School District in their refusal to rehire appellant, Eve V. Hegler, as a school teacher for the 1969-70 school year. The court below entered a decree directing the Board of Education to offer appellant a comparable...

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