KNIGHT v. STATE OF ALA.

Civ. A. No. 83-M-1676.

829 F.Supp. 1286 (1993)

John F. KNIGHT, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs and Plaintiffs, Intervenors, v. The STATE OF ALABAMA, et al., Defendants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. The STATE OF ALABAMA, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, S.D.

September 3, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James U. Blacksher, Birmingham, AL, for petitioners John F. Knight et al.

Larry T. Menefee, Montgomery, AL, for James U. Blacksher, et al.

C. Glenn Powell, Office of Counsel, University of Alabama System, Tuscaloosa, AL, for The Bd. of Trustees of the University of Alabama.

Jeffery A. Foshee, Richard N. Meadows, General Counsel, State Dept. of Educ., and Edward M. George, State Dept. of Postsecondary Educ., Montgomery, AL, for Wayne Teague Alabama State Bd. of Educ.

Joe R. Whatley, Jr., Cooper, Mitch, Crawford, Kuykendall & Whatley, and John C. Falkenberry, Birmingham, AL, for Alabama A & M University.

Solomon Seay, Jr., Montgomery, AL, and Armand Derfner, Charleston, S.C., for The Bd. of Trustees for Alabama State University.

J. Scott Greene, Bishop, Colvin & Sweeney, Birmingham, AL, for University of Montevallo.

Myland R. Engel, Engel, Walsh & Zoghby, and Maxey Roberts, University Atty., University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, for University of South Alabama.

Ernest N. Blasingame, Jr., Florence, AL, for University of North Alabama.

Walter J. Merrill, Anniston, AL, for Jacksonville State University.

Thomas W. Thagard, Jr., Balch & Bingham, Montgomery, AL, and Edward Allen, Balch & Bingham, Birmingham, AL, for Auburn University.

William F. Murray, Jr., Burr & Forman, Birmingham, AL, and Richard F. Calhoun, Calhoun, Watkins & Clower, Troy, AL, for Troy State University.

J. Fredric Ingram, Burr & Forman, Birmingham, AL, for Livingston University.

Jack W. Selden, Ms. Caryl Privett, U.S. Attorneys' Office, Birmingham, AL, and Craig Crenshaw, Civ. Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Mark Gross, Sr. Atty., Civ. Rights Div., Appellate Section, Washington, DC, for U.S.


ORDER OF REFERENCE

HAROLD L. MURPHY, District Judge.

On December 30, 1991, the Court entered a Remedial Decree ("Decree") the purpose and design of which is the elimination of unconstitutional vestiges of segregation that survive in Alabama's system of higher education. The Court issued the Decree after making extensive factual findings regarding the nature and breadth of the vestiges of segregation that remain in the state's college and university system...

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