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HARRIS v. CRENSHAW COUNTY BD. OF EDUC.

No. 91-7609.

968 F.2d 1090 (1992)

Annie Yvonne HARRIS, a minor, by her father and next friend, Collins W. HARRIS; Anne Ruth Whatley; Jessie Roy Whatley; Willie D. Henderson, Jr., minors by their mother and next friend, Norma Ruth Henderson; Gwenetta Hill, a minor, by her grandmother and next friend, Floreese Mitchell; Myra Ruth McGhee and Windan Ray McGhee, minors, by their father and next friend, Wilbur McGhee; and Willie D. Ridgeway, a minor, by his father and next friend, Jessie Ridgeway, Plaintiffs-Appellants, National Education Association, Inc., Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. CRENSHAW COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION; Eugene W. Williams, Steve Landers, Ollie Cannon, Howard Morgan, and James E. Hollis, Jr., as members of the Crenshaw County Board of Education and Joe R. Sport, Superintendent of Education of Crenshaw County, Alabama, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 31, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solomon S. Seay, Jr., James Eldon Wilson, U.S. Atty., Kenneth E. Vines, Asst. U.S. Atty., Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Nathaniel Douglas, Salliann S.M. Dougherty and Michael S. Maurer, Trial Attorneys, Civil Rights Div., Educational Opportunities Litigation Section, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Marie K. McElderry and Dennis J. Dimsey, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for U.S.

David R. Boyd, Balch & Bingham, Montgomery, Ala., Michael E. Jones, Luverne, Ala., for defendants-appellees.

Before KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge, CLARK, Senior Circuit Judge, and PITTMAN, Senior District Judge.

CLARK, Senior Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a district court order entered as part of that court's continuing jurisdiction over the Crenshaw County, Alabama, school system. The district court's order granted the petition of defendant Crenshaw County Board of Education for approval of the closing of Dozier High School, Crenshaw County's only predominantly black school, and the consolidation of that school with the other schools in the county. The plaintiffs...

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