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GA. STATE CONF. OF BR. OF NAACP v. STATE OF GA.

No. 84-8771.

775 F.2d 1403 (1985)

GEORGIA STATE CONFERENCE OF BRANCHES OF NAACP, Plaintiff, Mary Alice Covin, Mary Laurant, Sylvia Dennis, and Naomi Tucker, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE OF GEORGIA, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 29, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Bass, Jr., Savannah, Ga., Rose Firestein, Jonathan A. Zimring, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Patrick W. McKee, Atlanta, Ga., for State.

Dawn G. Benson, Albany, Ga., for Lee Co.

William M. Fulcher, Augusta, Ga., for Burke Co.

Charles K. Howard, Atlanta, Ga., for Vidalia Co.

Nathan G. Knight, Newnan, Ga., for Coweta Co.

Before HENDERSON and CLARK, Circuit Judges, and HOFFMAN, District Judge.

HENDERSON, Circuit Judge:

This is a civil rights class action attacking the policies and practices of the Georgia State Board of Education and a number of local school districts. The plaintiffs, thirty-five black schoolchildren, sued in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia claiming that black students are assigned to regular classes and programs for the educable mentally retarded (EMR) in Georgia public schools in a discriminatory...

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