ALLEN v. ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

No. 97-6808.

164 F.3d 1347 (1999)

Margaret T. ALLEN, Yolanda F. Lamar, et al., each individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Board of Trustees for Alabama State University; Eria P. Smith, et al., Intervenors-Plaintiffs-Appellees. v. The ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION; Fob James, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 11, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael White, Denise Boone Azar, Ashley H. Hamlett, State Dept. of Educ., Dorman Walker, Balch & Bingham, LLP, David R. Boyd, Montgomery, AL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Solomon S. Seay, Jr., Kenneth L. Thomas, Mark Englehart, Montgomery, AL, Gregory B. Stein, Mobile, AL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Jeremiah A. Collins, David M. Silberman, Washington, DC, for Board of Trustees for Alabama State University.

Before BIRCH and BARKETT, Circuit Judges, and ALAIMO, Senior District Judge.


BARKETT, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Alabama State Board of Education ("the Board") appeals from an adverse decision of the district court rejecting its motion to vacate a consent decree entered in 1987. The consent decree successfully ended Allen's civil rights class action against the Alabama State Board of Education challenging under the Equal Protection Clause and various federal civil rights laws, principally Title VI...

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