City of Benwood v. Board of Education

This case is before this Court upon an appeal of a final order of the Circuit Court of Marshall County entered on May 8, 2002. In that order, the circuit court denied a petition for a writ of mandamus and a request for declaratory and injunctive relief filed by the appellants and plaintiffs below, the City of Benwood, a municipal corporation, and Frank Longwell, Larry Ferrara, and William Kern, individually and on behalf of Save Our School/Union Defense Fund, against the Board of Education of the County of Marshall (hereinafter “the Board”) to prevent the closing of Union Junior High School.…