Legal Opinion

Lavon Wright v. The Board of Public Instruction of Alachua County, Florida

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided September 3, 1970No. 29999_1PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BELL, Circuit Judge:

This school case was last before the court in Singleton v. Jackson Municipal Separate School District, 5 Cir., 1969, 419 F.2d 1211 (en banc consideration of Alachua County and 12 additional school cases), modified sub nom. Carter v. West Feliciana Parish School Board, 1969, 396 U.S. 226, 90 S.Ct. 467, 24 L.Ed.2d 382. The questions presented now are in the form of remnants from the effort to convert to a unitary system.1

This system consists of 14,722 white and 7,138 Negro students. When suit was commenced in 1964, there were eleven all Negro schools in the system. Four of…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Green v. County School Board of New Kent CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Alexander v. Holmes County Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  3. Singleton v. Jackson Municipal Separate School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
  4. Evelyn R. Ellis, a Minor v. The Board of Public Instruction of Orange County, FloridaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
  5. United States v. Hinds County School BoardCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969

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3Cited by20 opinions

  1. Virgie Lee Valley, United States of America, Intervenor-Appellee v. Rapides Parish School Board, and Clyde Holloway, Intervenors-AppellantsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
  2. Carr v. Montgomery County Board of EducationDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 1974
  3. Alta Oveta Mims v. The Duval County School BoardCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
  4. George Robert Boykins, United States of America, Etc., Plaintiff-Intervenor v. Fairfield Board of EducationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
  5. Frederick Allen v. Board Of Public Instruction Of Broward County, FloridaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970

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