Gary L. Penick Cross-Appellants v. Columbus Board of Education and Ohio State Board of Education Cross-Appellees

GEORGE CLIFTON EDWARDS, Jr., Chief Judge.

This is the Columbus school desegregation case 1 which has been returned to this court after our remand to the District Court for reconsideration and new findings of fact concerning the question of liability for unconstitutional segregation on the part of defendants-appellants Ohio State Board of Education and Ohio Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Our opinion affirmed the District Judge’s findings of intentional segregation and liability against the local Board of Education. The District Judge had also found the State Board jointly liable for such…