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WALSTON v. SCHOOL BD. OF CITY OF SUFFOLK

Nos. 76-2433 and 76-2435.

566 F.2d 1201 (1977)

Syvalius WALSTON, Jr., George W. Crocker, Clara Lee, Eula Y. Baker, Evelyn J. Jones, Darline C. Boone, Dorothy D. Mozelle, Brenda S. Williams, Thelma L. Corprew, Queen H. Malone, Celestine E. Whitehead, Roumaine H. Howell, Josephine A. Gatling, Appellants, v. SCHOOL BOARD OF the CITY OF SUFFOLK and Robert A. Wood, Superintendent of Schools of the City of Suffolk, Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. SCHOOL BOARD OF the CITY OF SUFFOLK, and Robert A. Wood, Superintendent of Schools of the City of Suffolk, and Audrey C. Selby, Robert E. Parker, Jr., Parke Ashburn, Jr., Thaxton M. Brown, Sam A. Chilton, Jr., and Roger Knight, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 2, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Benton, Jr., Richmond, Va. (S. W. Tucker, Henry L. Marsh, III, Hill, Tucker & Marsh, Richmond, Va., Jack Greenberg, New York City, on brief), for appellants in 76-2433.

Mark L. Gross, Atty., Dept. of Justice (Frank D. Allen, Jr., Atty., Dept. of Justice, J. Stanley Pottinger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., William B. Cummings, U. S. Atty., Alexandria, Va., on brief), for appellant in 76-2435.

Frederick T. Gray, Richmond, Va. (Frederick T. Gray, Jr., Williams, Mullen & Christian, Richmond, Va., William Jones, City Atty., Suffolk, Va., on brief), for appellees in 76-2433 and 76-2435.

Before WINTER, BUTZNER and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

In Walston v. County School Board of Nansemond County, Va., 492 F.2d 919 (4 Cir. 1974), we reversed an order of the district court denying injunctive relief, reinstatement and back pay to certain black teachers formerly employed by the County School Board of Nansemond County, Virginia, and remanded the case for further proceedings.* One of our principal holdings was that teachers...

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