SATTERFIELD v. EDENTON-CHOWAN BD. OF ED.

No. 75-1191.

530 F.2d 567 (1975)

Richard L. SATTERFIELD, Appellant, v. The EDENTON-CHOWAN BOARD OF EDUCATION, a public body corporate of Chowan County, North Carolina, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 5, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis L. Lesesne, Jr., Charlotte, N.C. (Adam Stein, Chambers, Stein & Ferguson, Charlotte, N.C., on brief), for appellant.

Norman W. Shearin, Jr., Elizabeth City, N.C., Wiley J. P. Earnhardt, Jr., Edenton, N.C. (L. P. Hornthal, Jr., LeRoy, Wells, Shaw, Hornthal, Riley & Sherin, Elizabeth City, N.C., Earnhardt & Busby, Edenton, N.C., on brief), for appellees.

Before RUSSELL, FIELD and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.


DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiff appeals from a judgment of the District Court dismissing his action for affirmative injunctive relief reinstating him in his position as teacher and bandmaster in the defendant Edenton-Chowan School system, and for back pay, attorneys' fees and costs. We affirm.

The plaintiff is black. For eighteen years he had been employed as a teacher and band director in the defendant school system. For some years prior to 1970...

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