UNITED STATES v. STATE OF ALA.

Civ. A. No. 83-C-1676-S.

574 F.Supp. 762 (1983)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. The STATE OF ALABAMA; George C. Wallace, Governor of the State of Alabama; The Alabama State Board of Education; Wayne Teague, State Superintendent of Education; The Board of Trustees for Alabama A & M University, a public corporation; The Board of Trustees for Alabama State University, a public corporation; Auburn University, a public corporation; Jacksonville State University, a public corporation; Livingston University, a public corporation; Troy State University, a public corporation; The University of Montevallo, a public corporation; The Board of Trustees for the University of Alabama, a public corporation; The University of South Alabama, a public corporation; The Alabama Commission on Higher Education; and The Alabama Public School and College Authority, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, S.D.

September 26, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank W. Donaldson, U.S. Atty., Caryl P. Privett, Asst. U.S. Atty., Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiff.

John Richard Carrigan, Edward S. Allen, Balch, Bingham, Baker, Ward, Smith, Bowman & Thagard, Birmingham, Ala., Thomas W. Thagard, Jr., Montgomery, Ala., Solomon S. Seay, Jr., Gray, Seay & Langford, Montgomery, Ala., Thomas H. Keeling, Harvey L. Handley, III, Jay P. Heubert, General Litigation Section Civil Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Ira De Ment, Ronald W. Wise, De Ment & Wise, Montgomery, Ala., Walter J. Merrill, Anniston, Ala., Joe R. Whatley, Jr., Donald W. Stewart, Stewart, Falkenberry & Whatley, Birmingham, Ala., Charles S. Coody, State Dept. of Educ., Montgomery, Ala., Thomas D. Samford, III, Samford & Samford, Opelika, Ala., Robert L. Potts, Potts, Young, Blasingame & Suttle, Florence, Ala., Maxey J. Roberts, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Ala., Richard F. Calhoun, Brantley & Calhoun, Troy, Ala., J. Fredric Ingram, William F. Murray, Jr., Thomas, Taliaferro, Forman, Burr & Murray, Birmingham, Ala., C. Glenn Powell, University, Ala., Demetrius C. Newton, Birmingham, Ala., Thomas N. Todd, Chicago, Ill., J. Richmond Pearson, Birmingham, Ala., Donald V. Watkins, Watkins, Carter & Knight, Montgomery, Ala., James U. Blacksher, Larry T. Menefee, Blacksher, Menefee & Stein, Mobile, Ala., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OF OPINION OVERRULING MOTION TO DISQUALIFY UNDER 28 U.S.C. § 455

CLEMON, District Judge.

I have earlier determined that the recusal motions of Auburn University and State Superintendent of Education Wayne Teague are legally insufficient, as a matter of law, under § 144 of the Judicial Code 571 F.Supp. 958. It is now my conclusion that under § 455...

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