JENNINGS v. MERIDIAN MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT

No. 71-2222.

453 F.2d 413 (1971)

Don E. JENNINGS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The MERIDIAN MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 21, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Hogan, Meridian, Miss., for plaintiff-appellant.

William B. Compton, Meridian, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before MORGAN and CLARK, Circuit Judges, and RUBIN, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

Appellant Jennings, a Negro school teacher, filed this action for a mandatory injunction, seeking to require defendant Trustees of the Meridian Municipal Separate School District to grant him a new contract as a science teacher in the Northwest Junior High School for the Year 1970-71. Jennings asserts that he was not awarded a contract as a teacher in the school for racial reasons and because he attempted to exercise his First Amendment rights and other...

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