STOUT BY STOUT v. JEFFERSON COUNTY BD. OF EDUC.

No. 17-12338.

882 F.3d 988 (2018)

Linda STOUT, BY her father and next friend, Blevin STOUT, Catrena Carter, Lonnell Carter, Alfornia Carter, Sandra Ray, Ricky Reeves, Alene Reeves, Plaintiffs-Appellants/Cross-Appellees, United States of America, et al., Intervenor Plaintiffs, v. JEFFERSON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, Defendant-Appellee, Gardendale City Board of Education, Defendant-Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 13, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

U. W. Clemon , U.W. Clemon, LLC, Birmingham, AL, Christopher Eberhart Kemmitt , NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc, Washington, DC, Monique Lin-Luse , Samuel Spital , Deuel Ross , NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross Appellees.

Whit Colvin , Carl Johnson , Andrew Ethan Rudloff , Bishop Colvin Johnson & Kent, LLC, Birmingham, AL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Aaron Gavin McLeod , Stephen Ashford Rowe , Giles G. Perkins , Russell Rutherford , Adams & Reese, LLP, Donald B. Sweeney, Jr. , Alan K. Zeigler , Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, LLP, Birmingham, AL, for Defendant-Appellee-Cross Appellant.

Kimberly Stewart Hermann , Southeastern Legal Foundation, Inc., for Amici Curiae Southeastern Legal Foundation, Inc., Center for Equal Opportunity.

Before WILLIAM PRYOR, JILL PRYOR, and CLEVENGER, Circuit Judges.


This appeal requires that we revisit the decades-old task of school desegregation. A racial desegregation order issued in 1971 still governs the Jefferson County Board of Education in Alabama. But beginning in 2012, residents of the City of Gardendale, a predominantly white community in Jefferson County, sought to create...

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