OLIVER v. KALAMAZOO BD. OF ED.

Nos. 79-1042, 79-1101 and 79-1723.

640 F.2d 782 (1980)

Michelle OLIVER et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. KALAMAZOO BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants-Appellees, State Board of Education et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided December 15, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Atty. Gen. of Mich., Thomas L. Casey, Gerald F. Young, Richard P. Gartner, Asst. Attys. Gen., Robert A. Derengoski, Sol. Gen., Lansing, Mich., Michael H. Jackson, Denver, Colo., Louis R. Lucas, Ratner, Sugarmon, Lucas, Salky & Henderson, Memphis, Tenn., for defendants-appellants State Bd. of Ed. et al.

Arthur Staton, Jr., Ford, Krickard, Staton, Allen & Decker, Kalamazoo, Mich., for defendants-appellees Kalamazoo Bd. of Ed. et al.

Philip L. Hummer, Kalamazoo, Mich., Nathaniel R. Jones, Gen. Counsel, NAACP, New York City, Stuart J. Dunnings, Jr., Dunnings & Canady, Lansing, Mich., John A. Dziamba, Williamatic, Conn., Thomas I. Atkins, Boston, Mass., for plaintiffs-appellees.

James A. White and Thomas A. Baird, Foster, Swift, Collins & Coey, Lansing, Mich., for intervenors.

James S. Brady, U. S. Atty., Grand Rapids, Mich., Samuel J. Flanagan, Jr., Brian K. Landsberg, Dept. of Justice, for U. S. intervenors.

Before WEICK and BROWN, Circuit Judges, and PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.


BAILEY BROWN, Circuit Judge.

This school desegregation case involving the city schools of Kalamazoo, Michigan began in August, 1971, when this action was brought by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and certain students in the system. The Kalamazoo Board of Education and its individual members (referred to in the record and herein collectively as KBE) were named as defendants. Early in the litigation, the Kalamazoo Education Association...

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