BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF STATE IHL v. RAY

No. 2000-IA-00962-SCT.

809 So.2d 627 (2002)

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF STATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING; Ricki R. Garrett; Carl Nicholson, Jr.; Nan McGahey Baker; Thomas W. Colbert; William S. Crawford; Larry E. Homan; J. Marlin Ivey; James Roy Klumb; James W. Luvene; D.E. Magee, Jr.; Virginia Shanteau Newton; Cassie Pennington; Thomas Layzell; University of Southern Mississippi; Horace Fleming; and James O. Williams v. Olon E. RAY; Ted J. Alexander; Jimmy C. Hopper; Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges Inter-Alumni Association; Bennie Stone Gooden; Robert Lamar Goza; H. Kirk Moore, Jr.; Beverly C. Smith; K. Keenan Benefield; Cornelius B. Carter; Meredith Harper; Arvelle S. Hodge; Shunya D. Hunt; Martha H. McIlwain; Jason Reese; Jeff Robertson; Laura K. Peterson; Talmadge Portis, Jr.; Bobby F. Thrash; Mississippi Faculty Association for Community and Junior Colleges; Magdalene Abraham; Kenneth R. Bishop; Janice E. Duncan; Sandra H. Grisham; Tom Shepherd, Jr.; Eddie C. Smith; James R. Smith; Kenneth J. Taylor; Walton B. Wilson; William M. Brewer; Curtis L. Davis; Marshall Thomas Hewlett; Linda Weeks Hill; William H. Snell, Jr.; L.D. Stringfellow; W.L. Vierling; Mississippi State Board for Community and Junior Colleges; Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 28, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reuben V. Anderson, James W. Craig, Jackson, Vincent J. Bodin, Attorneys for Appellants.

James Lawton Robertson, Jackson, Paul E. Barnes, Attorneys for Appellees.

EN BANC.


SMITH, P.J., for the Court.

¶ 1. Appellees filed this suit on December 22, 1999, in the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County. Appellees claim that the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) violated Mississippi law in allowing the University of Southern Mississippi-Gulf Park (USM-GP) to begin offering freshman and sophomore courses as part of its curriculum. On January 19, 2000, they filed a Motion for Preliminary...

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