WOODEN v. BOARD OF REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY SYSTEM

No. CV 497-45.

32 F.Supp.2d 1370 (1999)

Michael C. WOODEN, Dr. Terry Bratcher, Ruth Harris, Kirby Tracy, Tom Jarvis, Ashley Davis and Craig Greene, Plaintiffs, v. BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA and Dr. Stephen R. Portch, in his individual and official capacities, Defendants, and Georgia State Conference NAACP, et al., Intervenor Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Georgia, Savannah Division.

January 6, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Lee Parks, Matthew C. Billips, K. Lee Adams, Kirwan, Parks, Chesin & Miller, P.C., Atlanta, GA, for Michael C. Wooden, Dr. Terry Bratcher, Elizabeth Scarbrough, Thelma F. Richardson, Marie McConnell, Ruth Harris, Kirby Tracy, Tom Jarvis, Ashley Davis, plaintiffs.

Dennis R. Dunn, Alfred L. Evans, Jr., Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, GA, for Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, Dr. Stephen R. Portch, defendants.

John Mell Clark, Elberton, GA, Howard Eugene Alls, Howard E. Alls & Associates, P.C., Savannah, GA, E. Ronald Garnett, Augusta, GA, Dennis D. Parker, David T. Goldberg, Victor A. Bolden, Theodore M. Shaw, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, NY, Ivory Kenneth Dious, Kenneth Dious & Assoc., Athens, GA, for Georgia State Conference NAACP, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Neshanta Johnson by and through Deborah Fanning, Adante Kwakye by and through Samuel Kwakye, Natalie Plowden by and through Nathaniel Plowden, Nicole Sheats by and through Alvin Sheats, Travis Thornton by and through Ovita Thornton, La'Dreca Wells by and through Larry Wakefield, Miranda Wilson by and through Larie Wilson, Kennita Bell, Chadafi Betterson, Lauretha Butler, William Deale, Tracey Ford, Derrick Gervin, Valerie Warren, Nyodemar Wiley, Caron Yancey, intervenor-defendants.


ORDER

EDENFIELD, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Invoking 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983 and 2000(d) ("Title VI"), plaintiffs Michael C. Wooden, et al., constitutionally challenge alleged racial discrimination within Georgia's University System. They insist that the defendant Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (the Board) and co-defendant Dr. Stephen R. Portch have utilized a racially discriminatory...

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