JACKSONVILLE BRANCH, NAACP v. DUVAL CTY. SCH. BD.

No. 88-3803.

883 F.2d 945 (1989)

JACKSONVILLE BRANCH, NAACP, Plaintiff-Appellant, Cross-Appellee, v. The DUVAL COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD, a body corporate, Defendant-Appellee, Cross-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied October 23, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael H. Sussman, Sussman & Sussman, Yonkers, N.Y., Edward A. Hailes, Jr., NAACP — Special Contribution Fund, Baltimore, Md., for plaintiff-appellant, cross-appellee.

Cindy A. Laquidara-Kenney, Jacksonville, Fla., Commander, Legler, Werber, Dawes, Sadler & Howell, P.A., Jacksonville, Fla., William Lee Allen, Asst. Counsel, Lee S. Carlin, Asst. Counsel, Jacksonville, Fla., for defendant-appellee, cross-appellant.

Before VANCE and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges, and ATKINS, Senior District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied October 23, 1989.

VANCE, Circuit Judge:

This action was filed in April, 1985 by the Jacksonville branch of the NAACP ("NAACP") on behalf of all black schoolchildren in Duval County, Florida. The complaint alleged that defendant, the Duval County School Board ("Board"), had acted since 1975 to increase racial segregation in its public schools. The district court consolidated this...

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