Legal Opinion
Givhan v. Western Line Consolidated School District
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 9, 1979No. 77-1051PublishedCited by 992 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Rehnquist
Petitioner Bessie Givhan was dismissed from her employment as a junior high English teacher at the end of the 1970-1971 school year.1 At the time of petitioner’s termination, respondent Western Line Consolidated School District was the subject of a desegregation order entered by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. Petitioner filed a complaint in intervention in the desegregation action, seeking reinstatement on the dual grounds that *412nonrenewal of her contract violated the rule laid down by the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Singleton v.…
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