LEE v. MACON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION

No. 73-3088 Summary Calendar.

490 F.2d 458 (1974)

Anthony T. LEE et al., Plaintiffs, Mrs. James O'Neal et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor and Amicus Curiae, National Education Association, Inc., Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. MACON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants, (Randolph County Board of Education) et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 6, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Demetrius C. Newton, Birmingham, Ala., Jack Greenberg, Norman Chachkin, Charles E. Williams, III, New York City, for plaintiffs.

John S. Casey, Heflin, Ala., for defendants.

Ira DeMent, U. S. Atty., Montgomery, Ala., J. Stanley Pottinger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civ. Rights Div., U. S. D. of Washington, D. C., Solomon S. Seay, Jr., Montgomery, Ala., for other interested parties.

Before BELL, GODBOLD and GEE, Circuit Judges.


GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

Appellant, Inez Knight, brought this suit on behalf of her daughters, Lillie Mae, 17, and Rose Ella, 14. The two children were pupils in Randolph County High School, located in a largely rural Alabama county. The high school principal, Hulond Humphries, sent the children home from school February 2, 1973. He did not tell them when they would be allowed to return. The same date he wrote two letters...

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