Legal Opinion
Stevenson v. Wheeler County Board of Education
District Court, S.D. Georgia
Decided November 17, 1969No. Civ. A. 731PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
LAWRENCE, Chief Judge.
On September 15th I handed down an opinion in six cases brought by the United States against School Boards in the Southern District of Georgia seeking injunctions against the continued failure on their part to comply with commitments made to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare as to desegre gation plans to be put into effect at the beginning of the present school year.
Up to that time freedom of choice existed in Wheeler County. During the school year 1968-69 Wheeler County High School, embracing all grades through the 12th, had an enrollment of 556 white…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School DistrictSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. BarnetteSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Thornhill v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Dennis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
- Whitney v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
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3Cited by29 opinions
- Robert Richards, Jr., a Minor by His Father and Next Friend Robert Richards v. Roger Thurston, as Principal of Marlboro High SchoolCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1970
- George Stevenson v. The Board of Education of Wheeler County, GeorgiaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
- Schwartz v. Galveston Independent School DistrictDistrict Court, S.D. Texas · 1970
- Wood Ex Rel. Wood v. Alamo Heights Independent School DistrictDistrict Court, W.D. Texas · 1970
- Texarkana Independent School District v. LewisCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1971
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