Miller v. School District Number 2

HEMPHILL, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, Negro children attending in defendant school district, instituted this action August 17, 1965 pleading jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. 1843(3), alleging: “this being a suit in equity authorized by law, Title 42, United States Code, Section 19831 * * * to redress the deprivation, under color of statute, ordinance, regulation, custom or usage of a state, or rights, privileges and immunities secured by the Constitution and laws of the United States.” By Order of February 18, 1966, the United States was allowed to intervene and thereafter spearheaded the cause of…