Legal Opinion
Allen v. Alabama State Board of Education
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 11, 1999No. 97-6808PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARKETT, Circuit Judge:
Appellant Alabama State Board of Education (“the Board”) appeals from an adverse decision of the district court rejecting its motion to vacate a consent decree entered in 1987. The consent decree successfully ended Allen’s civil rights class action against the Alabama State Board of Education challenging under the Equal Protection Clause and various federal civil rights laws, principally Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 42 U.S.C. § 1981, the Board’s requirement that applicants for state teacher certification pass certain standardized tests. The…
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