United States v. Montgomery County Board of Education

In this action the United States District Court at Montgomery, Alabama, ordered the local Montgomery County Board of Education to bring about a racial desegregation of the faculty and the staff of the local county school system. 289 F. Supp. 647 (1968). Dissatisfied with the District Court’s order, the board appealed. A panel of the Court of Appeals affirmed the District Court’s order but, by a two-to-one vote, modified it in part, 400 F. 2d (1968). 1 A petition for rehearing en banc was denied by an evenly divided court, six to six, thereby leaving standing the modifications in the District…