HORTON v. ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION

No. 71-1837.

464 F.2d 536 (1972)

Stella HORTON et al., Appellants, v. ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 13, 1972.

Rehearing Denied September 6, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. LeVonne Chambers, Charlotte, N. C. (James E. Ferguson, II, and Chambers, Stein, Ferguson & Lanning, Charlotte, N. C., and Conrad O. Pearson, Durham, N. C., Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, New York City, on brief), for appellants.

Lucius M. Cheshire, Hillsborough, N. C., and Emery B. Denny, Jr., Durham, N. C. (Graham & Cheshire, Hillsborough, N. C., and Haywood, Denny & Miller, Durham, N. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before BRYAN, WINTER and RUSSELL, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Her employment as a teacher, the appellant Stella Horton complained to the District Court in a class action, was not renewed by the Orange County Board of Education in North Carolina for the session of 1969-70 in violation of the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. Suing under the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, she prayed reinstatement, with an injunction forbidding a repetition of such incidents...

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