NATONABAH v. BOARD OF ED. OF GALLUP-McKINLEY CTY. SCH. D.

Civ. No. 8925.

355 F.Supp. 716 (1973)

Joe NATONABAH et al., Plaintiffs, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the GALLUP-McKINLEY COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Mexico.

February 8, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Collins, Jr., Alan C. Stay, Donald Juneau, Stephen A. Harvey, Bruce Bridegroom, Alan Taradash, Window Rock, Ariz., Daniel M. Rosenfelt, Harvard Center for Education, Cambridge, Mass., Paul Biderman, James Wechsler, Crownpoint, N. M., Richard C. Bosson, Albuquerque, N. M., Mark G. Yudof, Cambridge, Mass., Charles F. Wilkinson, Boulder, Colo., for plaintiffs.

E. P. Ripley, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., State Dept. of Education, Santa Fe, N. M., for Leonard J. De Layo.

W. R. Hughes, Asst. U. S. Atty., Victor R. Ortega, U. S. Atty., Albuquerque, N. M., Peter Brickfield, Atty. Dept. of Justice, Civil Division, General Litigation Section, Washington, D. C., for United States, Elliot L. Richardson and Sidney P. Marland.

John E. Perry, Gallup, N. M., for John H. Schuelke, Cal W. Foutz, Earnest C. Becenti, John C. Martin, Abe Plummer, A. C. Woodburn and Board of Education of Gallup-McKinley County School Dist.

Olmsted, Cohen and Bingaman, Jeff Bingaman, Santa Fe, N. M., for Leonard J. DeLayo.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

BRATTON, District Judge.

This is a class action for declaratory and injunctive relief brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C.A. §§ 1981-83 and 28 U.S.C. A. §§ 1361, 2201-02. The plaintiffs are Navajo Indian children, who, through their parents, are suing in their own behalf and in behalf of all other Indian students who attend schools in the Gallup-McKinley County School District. Alleged are discrimination against them on the...

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