National Education Ass'n v. Lee County Board of Public Instruction

OPINION

KRENTZMAN, District Judge.

This suit contests the legality of certain $100 fines paid by approximately 400 public school teachers in Lee County, Florida, following the educational crisis that gripped the entire state in February and March, 1968. The suit has been brought as a class action under Rule 23, F.R.Civ.P. 1

There are three categories of plaintiffs. The first category, of whom seven are named as plaintiffs, is made up of teachers who actually paid the $100 fines. These teachers seek to recover the fines they paid^on the ground that they constitute illegal exactions. There are…