Legal Opinion
Johnnie Pegues v. Morehouse Parish School Board
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 10, 1983No. 82-4329PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POLITZ, Circuit Judge:
Once again we consider the complaint of Johnnie Pegues that in its implementation of a court-ordered desegregation plan, the Morehouse Parish School Board demoted him from head to assistant football coach and thereafter bypassed him in filling several head coach vacancies. On the first appeal we affirmed the district court’s dismissal of Pegues’ § 1983 cause of action on the basis of untimeliness, but reversed its holding that Singleton 1 relief was unavailable due to Pegues’ delay in bringing suit. Concluding that the mere passage of time was insufficient to bar a…
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