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HEREFORD v. HUNTSVILLE BD. OF ED.

No. 76-4437.

574 F.2d 268 (1978)

Sonnie Wellington HEREFORD, IV, et al., Plaintiffs, Charles Ford et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. HUNTSVILLE BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 2, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

U. W. Clemon, James K. Baker, Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiffs-appellants.

In title Charles Ford, pro se.

Joe L. Payne, Ralph H. Ford, Huntsville, Ala., for defendants-appellees.

Solomon B. Seay, Jr., Montgomery, Ala., for Ala. State Teachers.

Orzell Billingsley, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., James C. Gray, Jr., Norman J. Chachkin, Jack Greenberg, New York City, Griffin & Griffin, Harold F. Herring, Huntsville, Ala., for Citizens for Neighborhood Schools.

Wayman G. Sherrer, U.S. Atty., Birmingham, Ala., Brian K. Landsberg, Atty., Mark L. Gross, Theodore J. Garrish, Andrew F. Oehmann, Jr., Educ. Sect., Civil Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for other interested parties.

Before AINSWORTH, GODBOLD, and HILL, Circuit Judges.

JAMES C. HILL, Circuit Judge.

The case on appeal arises in the context of the desegregation of the Huntsville, Alabama school system. Eight plaintiffs, present and former black employees of the school system, allege that the defendants have unlawfully discriminated against them and against other similarly situated persons.1 Of the eight plaintiffs, six claim that the defendants unconstitutionally denied them and other similarly situated...

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