Legal Opinion
Shirley Gaines v. Dougherty County Board of Education
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 27, 1964No. 20984PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TUTTLE, Chief Judge.
Immediately following the submission of this case on appeal we entered an opinion and order pending a decision by the United States Supreme Court in Calhoun v. Latimer, 5 Cir., 321 F.2d 302, the case dealing with the Atlanta school system. The Court has now decided that case, 84 S.Ct. 1235. As we indicated in our prior opinion in this case, 329 F.2d 823, the Supreme Court gave primary consideration in the Calhoun case to the question whether the Atlanta plan, still having eight years to run before bringing a final end to the segregated schools in the city of Atlanta, met…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Griffin v. School Bd. of Prince Edward Cty.Supreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Watson v. City of MemphisSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Goss v. Board of Ed. of KnoxvilleSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Fred S. Calhoun v. A. C. LatimerSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by14 opinions
- United States v. Jefferson County Board of EducationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- Shirley Gaines v. Dougherty County Board of EducationCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
- Derek Jerome Singleton, Minor, by Mrs. Edna Marie Singleton, His Mother the Next Friend v. Jackson Municipal Separate School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- Donald Price and Melvin E. Price, Minors by Their Father and Next Friend, Jesse Price v. The Denison Independent School District Board of EducationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1965
- Lemon v. Bossier Parish School BoardDistrict Court, W.D. Louisiana · 1965
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