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YORK v. ALA. STATE BD. OF EDUC.

Civ. A. No. 83-T-421-N.

581 F.Supp. 779 (1983)

Arnetta YORK, Alma D. Willis, Herbert White, Gwendolyn Webb, Helen Taylor, Barbara J. Taylor, Valeria B. Oakley, Charlie Nichols, Portia M. Lockette, Robert Likely, Ernestine Kinslow, Angela King, Paula A. Hickman, Angela M. Gordon, Salle Ann Glover, Deborah A. Flakes, Cloteal Feurtado, Palmer Deloris Curry, Augusta F. Crosby, Alfreda Bolden, Joyce R. Black, Brigitte Bartell and Ricky L. Allen, individually and on behalf of a class of similarly situated persons, Plaintiffs, v. ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION; John Tyson, Isabelle Thomasson, S.A. Cherry, John Fulmer, Victor Poole, Harold C. Martin, James B. Allen, Jr., and Evelyn Pratt, individually and in their official capacities as members of the Alabama State Board of Education; Wayne Teague, individually and in his capacity a State Superintendent of Education; Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, Alabama; Abe L. Hammons, Dan C. Alexander, Jr., Norman J. Berger, and Ruth F. Drago, Defendants.

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

August 10, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James U. Blacksher, Gregory B. Stein, Blacksher, Menefee & Stein, Mobile, Ala., Donald Watkins, Watkins, Carter & Knight, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs.

Jon A. Green and Robert Campbell, Sintz, Pike, Campbell & Duke, Mobile, Ala., and Robert E. Sasser and J. Fairley McDonald, III, Jones, Murray, Stewart & Yarbrough, Montgomery, Ala., for defendants Bd. of School Com'rs of Mobile County.

T.W. Thagard, Jr., and David R. Boyd, Charles S. Coody, Montgomery, Ala., for state defendants.

OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

Suing on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, the plaintiffs — 19 black and three white former, nontenured teachers in the school system of Mobile County, Alabama — brought this cause of action on May 4, 1983, challenging the school system's use of the National Teacher Examinations (NTE) to determine whether teacher applicants should be employed and nontenured teachers reemployed. The...

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