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U.S. v. STATE OF GA.

Civ A. No. 2771-MAC (WDO).

702 F.Supp. 1577 (1989)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, Charlie Ridley, et al., Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. STATE OF GEORGIA, et al. (Grady, Hart, Irwin, Jasper, Macon, Mitchell, Monroe, Morgan, and Peach Counties), Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Georgia, Macon Division.

January 12, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman Chachkin, NAACP-Legal Defense and Education Fund, New York City, Thomas M. Jackson, Macon, Ga., for plaintiff-intervenor.

Michael J. Bowers, Atty. Gen., State of Ga., Atlanta, Ga., for defendant State of Ga.

Pauline Miller, Nathaniel Douglas, Civil Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for U.S.

Charles R. Adams, Jr., Ft. Valley, Ga., for Peach County.

W. Edward Meeks, Jr., Ocilla, Ga., for Irwin County.

Thomas Ledford, Camilla, Ga., for Mitchell County.

W. Ashley Hawkins, Forsyth, Ga., for Monroe County.

Thomas L. Lehman, Cairo, Ga., for Grady County.

Walter S. Chew, Jr., Oglethorpe, Ga., for Macon County.

E.R. Lambert, Madison, Ga., for Morgan County.

Roy R. Kelly, Monticello, Ga., for Jasper County.

Phillip L. Hartley, Harben & Hartley, Gainesville, Ga., for Hart County.

ORDER

OWENS, Chief Judge.

In August of 1969 and in reliance upon the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the United States as plaintiff initiated this action against the State of Georgia, et al., to desegregate numerous Georgia school districts. Shortly thereafter, Charlie Ridley, et al., were permitted to intervene in this matter as plaintiff-intervenors,1<...

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