FIEDLER v. MARUMSCO CHRISTIAN SCH.

No. 79-1556.

631 F.2d 1144 (1980)

Raymond FIEDLER; Melissa and Charlotte Fiedler by their father and next friend, Raymond Fiedler, Appellants, v. MARUMSCO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, Marumsco Baptist Church and Aleck Lee Bledsoe, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 10, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor M. Glasberg, Alexandria, Va. (Leonard S. Rubenstein, Hirschkop & Grad, P. C., Alexandria, Va., Steven W. Bricker, American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellants.

I. J. Crickenberger, Falls Church, Va., (Crickenberger & Moore, Falls Church, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Daniel M. Schember, Gaffney, Anspach, Schember, Klimaski & Marks, P. C., Washington, D. C., on brief, as amicus curiae General Board of Church and Society of The United Methodist Church.

Drew S. Days, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Walter W. Barnett, Irving L. Gornstein, Dept. of Justice, on brief, as amicus curiae United States.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge, and ERVIN, Circuit Judge.


ERVIN, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal, Raymond Fiedler and his daughters, Melissa (Lisa) and Charlotte, all of whom are members of the white race, challenge the district court's dismissal of their civil rights suit brought under 42 U.S.C. § 19811 against Marumsco Christian School, Marumsco Baptist Church (hereafter collectively called Marumsco) and Aleck Lee Bledsoe, principal of the school and pastor of the church (hereafter, Bledsoe...

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