Legal Opinion
Fortman v. Texarkana School District No. 7
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided October 21, 1974No. 74-71PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
George Rose Smith, Justice.
This is an action by the appellants, two tenth-grade high school girls (suing by their next friends), for a writ of mandamus to compel the appellee school district to re-admit them to the Texarkana, Arkansas, high school. The circuit court, in sustaining the district’s motion for summary judgment, held that the board of directors of the district had the authority to permanently expel the two girls. Whether that ruling was legally correct is the only issue argued by the appellants.
The material facts are not in dispute. On the evening of March 21, 1973, some sort of…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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