GIVENS v. POE

Civ. A. No. 2615.

346 F.Supp. 202 (1972)

Peggy GIVENS and Rose Mary Givens, Minors, by their next friend and mother, Maggie Givens, Plaintiffs, v. William E. POE et al., Defendants.

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

June 19, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gail Barber, Martin J. Miller, Jack Ross and Shelley Blum, Legal Aid Society, Charlotte, N. C., for plaintiffs.

Richard A. Bigger, Jr., Weinstein, Waggoner, Sturges, Odom & Bigger, Charlotte, N. C., for defendants.


PRELIMINARY STATEMENT

McMILLAN, District Judge.

On December 12, 1969, the plaintiffs, Peggy Givens, age eleven, and Rose Mary Givens, age thirteen, got into a dispute with Peggy's teacher, Mrs. Charlotte S. Rhoden, at Double Oaks Elementary School in Charlotte. The children were sent home immediately; a conference was held next day; they were formally notified of their exclusion a month later.

The children then brought this suit under 28 United States...

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