Emmett PLAYER et al., Plaintiffs,
v.
STATE OF ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF PENSIONS AND SECURITY et al., Defendants,
United States of America, Amicus Curiae.
United States District Court, M. D. Alabama, N. D.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
August 8, 1975.
August 8, 1975.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Howard A. Mandell and Joseph J. Levin, Jr., Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs.
Clyde P. McLendon, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Ala., Montgomery, Ala., for State of Ala., Dept. of Pensions and Security and Julia J. Oliver.
Thomas W. Thagard, Jr., Smith, Bowman, Thagard, Crook & Culpepper, Montgomery, Ala., for Brantwood Children's Home.
Ewell C. Orme, Troy, Ala., for Ala. Baptist Children's Home and R. H. Shirey.
Morgan Reynolds, Reynolds & Reynolds, Clanton, Ala., for Alabama Sheriffs' Boys Ranch and Don Acton, its administrator.
Jack Crenshaw, Crenshaw & Minor, Montgomery, Ala., for Presbyterian Home for Children and James Gabbie, its president.
Thomas S. Lawson, Jr., Capell, Howard, Knabe & Cobbs, Montgomery, Ala., for United Methodist Children's Home and Richard I. Kirkland, its executive director.
Joseph D. Phelps, Robison, Belser, Brewer & Phelps, Montgomery, Ala., for Gateway, Inc., and Mary Edna Porter, its executive director.
Ira DeMent, U. S. Atty., and Kenneth E. Vines, Asst. U. S. Atty., M.D.Ala., Montgomery, Ala., and Miriam R. Eisenstein and Robert J. Wiggers, Attys. Civil Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the U. S., amicus curiae.
United States District Court, M. D. Alabama, N. D.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JOHNSON, Chief Judge.
In this civil action, plaintiffs contend that the named plaintiffs, Emmett Player, Price Dwayne Coefield, and Charles Scott, are members of a class of black children in Alabama who have been discriminated against by the Alabama Department of Pensions and Security and six child-care institutions in the state. Named as defendants are the Alabama Department of Pensions and Security (hereinafter DPS) and its Commissioner...
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