IVRA v. BRITTON

Nos. 83-2517, 83-2518, 83-2644 and 83-2660.

753 F.2d 80 (1985)

Jessee IVRA, Velma Smith, Barbara Jones, Lawrence Woods, Less Doll Twillie, Dorothy Woods, Anna Brown, Hazel A. Drinkwater, Earnestine Taylor, Ora Harris, Mansell Twillie, and Leurlene Price, Appellants, v. C.B. BRITTON, President of the Crawfordsville School Board, W.J. Carlson, Robert English, Randall Johnson, and Henry Valentine, Board Members, and G.B. Pouncey, Appellees. Floyd MUNN, Appellant, v. C.B. BRITTON, President of the Crawfordsville School Board, W.J. Carlson, Robert English, Randall Johnson, and Henry Valentine, Board Members, and G.B. Pouncey, Appellees. Mansell TWILLIE, Wilma J. Thornton, and Florence Perkins, Appellants, v. G.B. POUNCEY, Superintendent, Edward Hampton, President of the Crawfordsville School Board, Bill Robinson, David Wallace, W.H. Green, and James Jackson, Jr., Board Members, Appellees. Less Doll TWILLIE and Dorothy A. Bass, Appellants, Dewitt D. Martin, v. CRAWFORDSVILLE, ARKANSAS SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2, Farrington B. Snipes, Jr., President of Board of Directors, W.J. Carlson, Edward Hampton, W.D. Robertson, each in their individual capacity and as members of the Board of Directors of the Crawfordsville Independent School District No. 2, G.B. Pouncey, Superintendent, in his individual capacity and as Superintendent of Schools of Crawfordsville Independent School District No. 2, Appellees. Less Doll TWILLIE, Dorothy A. Bass, and Dewitt D. Martin, Appellees, v. CRAWFORDSVILLE, ARKANSAS SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2, Farrington B. Snipes, Jr., President of Board of Directors, W.J. Carlson, Edward Hampton, W.D. Robertson, each in their individual capacity and as members of the Board of Directors of the Crawfordsville Independent School District No. 2, G.B. Pouncey, Superintendent, in his individual capacity and as Superintendent of Schools of Crawfordsville Independent School District No. 2, Appellants. Less Doll TWILLIE and Dorothy A. Bass, Appellants, Dewitt D. Martin, v. CRAWFORDSVILLE, ARKANSAS SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2, Farrington B. Snipes, Jr., President of Board of Directors, W.J. Carlson, Edward Hampton, W.D. Robertson, each in their individual capacity and as members of the Board of Directors of the Crawfordsville Independent School District No. 2, G.B. Pouncey, Superintendent, in his individual capacity and as Superintendent of Schools of Crawfordsville Independent School District No. 2, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided January 21, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Walker, P.A., Little Rock, Ark., Benita Terry Jones, Dallas, Tex., for appellants in No. 83-2517.

Robert V. Light, Little Rock, for appellees in No. 83-2517.

Samuel Turner, Jr., West Memphis, Ark., for appellants Less Doll Twillie and Dorothy Bass and cross appellant Dewitt Martin.

Before BRIGHT, JOHN R. GIBSON, and FAGG, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Appellants in these consolidated cases are present and former black employees of the Crawfordsville, Arkansas School District. They appeal from the district court's1 adverse rulings in employment discrimination actions filed under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983.

In the first of these lawsuits filed in 1974 (Ivra, et al.), twelve plaintiffs asserted a variety of allegations of discriminatory treatment in...

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