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DAVIS v. BOARD OF SCHOOL COM'RS OF MOBILE COUNTY

No. 78-1078.

600 F.2d 470 (1979)

Birdie Mae DAVIS et al., Plaintiffs, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, Edwin Foster and James E. Buskey, Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellants, v. BOARD OF SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS OF MOBILE COUNTY et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 6, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. U. Blacksher, Mobile, Ala., Jack Greenberg, Bill Lann Lee, New York City, Solomon S. Seay, Jr., Montgomery, Ala., for Edwin Foster and James E. Buskey.

Sintz, Pike, Campbell & Duke, Daniel A. Pike, Mobile, Ala., for Board of School Com'rs of Mobile County.

Before AINSWORTH, GODBOLD and HILL, Circuit Judges.

JAMES C. HILL, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-intervenors are black assistant principals in the Mobile County school system. They charge that the defendants have discriminated against blacks in awarding promotions by keeping black personnel in traditionally black schools and by failing to appoint blacks to higher administrative level jobs. The origins of this on-going school case date back to 1963 and the history of the employment...

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