Legal Opinion
Valley v. Rapides Parish School Board
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 24, 1997No. 96-30441PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEWART, Circuit Judge:
Appellants appeal the district court’s grant of a preliminary injunction reinstating appellee Dr. Betty Cox (“Cox”) as Rapides Parish School Superintendent. Appellants voted to terminate Cox after conducting a fifty-five-hour hearing in which they determined that Cox was unfit to continue as superintendent. After a careful review of the record, we affirm the grant of the preliminary injunction.
BACKGROUND
Cox was permitted by the district court to intervene in this longstanding school desegregation case in order to contest the constitutionality of her employment…
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