FULLER v. LAURENS COUNTY SCHOOL DIST. NO. 56

Nos. 76-1317, 76-1318.

563 F.2d 137 (1977)

Mattie FULLER, Bessie Harley and Beatrice Sullivan, Appellees, v. LAURENS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 56, a body politic, and corporate, Dr. C. L. Cummins, Jr., Administrative Superintendent of Laurens County School District 56, and H. L. Shealy, Principal, Clinton Elementary School, both individually and officially, Dr. W. Fred Chapman, Jr., Calvin A. Cooper, S. C. Blackmon, J. R. Swetenberg, Jr., John Adair, John E. (Billie) Willingham, and Dr. R. M. Fuller, each individually and as members of the Board of Trustees of Laurens County School District 56, all jointly and severally and the successors in the offices of each, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 14, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. D. Todd, Jr., Michael J. Giese, Greenville, S.C. (Leatherwood, Walker, Todd & Mann, Greenville, S.C., Thomas A. Babb, Babb & Babb, Laurens, S.C., on brief), for appellants in 76-1317 and for appellees in 76-1318.

Jerry D. Anker, Washington, D.C. (Robert E. Nagle, Wald, Harkrader & Ross, David Rubin, Washington, D.C., T. Travis Medlock, Craig K. Davis, Medlock & Davis, Columbia, S.C., on brief), for appellees in 76-1317 and for appellants in 76-1318.

Before BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and BUTZNER and HALL, Circuit Judges.


ALBERT V. BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

Under the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1983,1 on September 12, 1973, in the District Court, Mattie Fuller, Beatrice Sullivan and Bessie Harley, black elementary school teachers with 23, 12 and 11 years of service respectively, sued their employer, the Laurens County School District No. 56 of South Carolina, and also the administrative superintendent of the schools, the principal of Clinton Elementary...

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