HUGHES v. HALIFAX COUNTY SCHOOL BD.

No. 86-2653.

823 F.2d 832 (1987)

Chandler Nelson HUGHES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HALIFAX COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD; James Gregory; Herbert Lloyd; Julian Harrison, Defendants-Appellees, and Tommy Lacks, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 22, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Winston Bricker (Bremner Baber & Janus, Richmond, Va., on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

John Adrian Gibney, Jr. (D. Patrick Lacy, Jr., Lacy & Mehfoud, P.C., Richmond, Va., Don P. Bagwell, Sr., Bagwell, Bagwell & Bagwell, Halifax, Va., and Franklin Slayton, South Boston, Va., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before ERVIN and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges, and VAN GRAAFEILAND, Senior Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, sitting by designation.


ERVIN, Circuit Judge:

Chandler Nelson Hughes appeals the denial of his motion for entry of judgment, pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 58. Rule 58 requires that all judgments be entered on a document separate from the accompanying opinion. In denying Hughes's motion, the district court ruled that its five-page order complied with the separate document requirement, making an entry of judgment unnecessary. After considering the five...

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