MORGAN v. McDONOUGH

No. 75-1482.

540 F.2d 527 (1976)

Tallulah MORGAN et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. John J. McDONOUGH et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 17, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Sullivan, Jr., Boston, Mass., with whom Francis J. DiManto, Matthew T. Connolly, Philip T. Tierney, and DiMento & Sullivan, Boston, Mass., were on brief for defendants-appellants.

Robert Pressman, Cambridge, Mass., with whom Laurence S. Fordham, J. Harold Flannery, Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Rudolph F. Pierce, Keating, Perretta & Pierce, Boston, Mass., Eric E. Van Loon, Cambridge, Mass., John Leubsdorf, Boston Mass., and Nathaniel Jones, New York City, were on brief, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Sandra L. Lynch, Boston, Mass., with whom Timothy J. W. Wise, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., on brief, for state defendants, appellees.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, McENTEE and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.


LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

This appeal was filed on December 10, 1975, by the Boston School Committee (the Committee) from orders of the district court designating a temporary receiver for South Boston High School and ordering the transfer, without reduction in pay, of certain of its staff. The question before us is whether under the extraordinarily difficult and troubled circumstances confronting the School in the...

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