Sutton v. City of Hattiesburg

OPINION OF THE COURT

DAN M. RUSSELL, Jr., Chief Judge.

Elizabeth Sutton, and three other named plaintiffs, who do not identify themselves as adults or minors, have brought this class action presumably on behalf of themselves and on behalf of all black and impoverished elementary school children residing in the City of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, who are dis-criminatorily required to walk long and hazardous distances to attend classes at schools to which they have been assigned in the dismantling of the previous dual school system. Defendants, as originally named, included the City of Hattiesburg,…