Legal Opinion

Scoggins v. Board of Education of the Nashville, Arkansas Public Schools

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided August 12, 1988No. Nos. 87-1424, 87-1553PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

This case presents a combination of individual and class claims alleging racial discrimination in the Nashville, Arkansas Public Schools. Individual plaintiff Fern Scog-gins appeals the judgment for the defendants in her action for employment discrimination under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983 and 2000d and 2000e, and her pendent state *1474claim under the Arkansas Teacher Fair Dismissal Act of 1979, Act of April 6, 1979, No. 766 (repealed). We affirm the orders of the district court regarding these individual claims.

Mrs. Scoggins joins the other named plaintiffs as the…

2Cases cited11 opinions

Anderson v. City of Bessemer CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
Commissioner v. DubersteinSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
Green v. County School Board of New Kent CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
Hazelwood School District v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977

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3Cited by1 opinion

Fern Scoggins Earnest Perry Geneva Perry Carl Atkins Sue Atkins Logan Coulter Janet Coulter Earl Scoggins Maryland C. White Marke Lee Pearlie Lee Edna Armstrong John Smith Vertie L. Smith Adeon Griddine Linda Cheathem Pauline Nelson Ruthie Green Ora Newton and Earma Holt v. The Board of Education of the Nashville, Arkansas Public Schools, Etc. And Carl Barger, Superintendent, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of the Nashville, Arkansas Public Schools, Fern Scoggins Earnest Perry Geneva Perry Carl Atkins Sue Atkins Logan Coulter Janet Coulter Earl Scoggins Maryland C. White Marke Lee Pearlie Lee Edna Armstrong John Smith Vertie L. Smith Adeon Griddine Linda Cheathem Pauline Nelson Ruthie Green Ora Newton and Earma Holt v. The Board of Education of the Nashville, Arkansas Public Schools, Etc. And Carl Barger, Superintendent, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of the Nashville, Arkansas Public SchoolsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1988