MITCHELL v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF OXFORD, ETC.

No. 80-3167.

625 F.2d 660 (1980)

Dennis Harry MITCHELL et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF OXFORD MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 11, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alvin O. Chambliss, Willie L. Rose, Oxford, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Will A. Hickman, S. T. Rayburn, Oxford, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before KRAVITCH, HENDERSON and REAVLEY, Circuit Judges.


KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge.

Dennis Mitchell and Leon Coleman, together with their mothers as next friends, brought this action for injunctive and declaratory relief and for damages against the Oxford Municipal Separate School District (hereafter the School Board) and its members. The plaintiffs alleged that their substantive due process rights were violated by application of a School Board policy which mandates the automatic expulsion1 of...

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