Legal Opinion
Rebecca Wright v. The City of Brighton, Alabama
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 16, 1971No. 29262_1PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:
This case brings us to Brighton, a city in Jefferson County, Alabama, which is sited in the mainstream of the jurisprudential history of school desegregation.1 The immediate problem involves the sale of an abandoned school building by the City of Brighton, Alabama, to the Hoover Academy, a private all-white school. The plaintiffs, black citizens of Brighton, seek to have us enjoin the sale under 28 U.S.C.A. §§ 1343(3), (4), 42 U.S.C.A. §§ 1981, 1983, and the Fourteenth Amendment, contending that the sale of the building violated their right to equal protection of the…
2Cases cited32 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Bolling v. SharpeSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Burton v. Wilmington Parking AuthoritySupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1968
- McLaughlin v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by29 opinions
- Jose Cisneros v. Corpus Christi Independent School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
- Evans v. BuchananDistrict Court, D. Delaware · 1975
- Writers Guild of America, West, Inc. v. Federal Communications CommissionDistrict Court, C.D. California · 1976
- Harold S. Golden and David Fincher v. Biscayne Bay Yacht ClubCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1976
- Georgia Theresa Gilmore v. City of MontgomeryCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
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