Legal Opinion
Burleson v. County Board of Election Commissioners of Jefferson County
District Court, E.D. Arkansas
Decided January 22, 1970No. PB-69-C-65PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Memorandum Opinion
HENLEY, Chief Judge.
This cause, which has been tried to the Court, presents the question of whether white inhabitants of a geographically isolated portion of an Arkansas public school district faced with an obligation to integrate its schools may validly employ the Arkansas school and election laws so as to secede from the parent district and establish an autonomous district of their own. The case seems to be one of first impression.
While the suit is an independent action, it is an outgrowth of the protracted desegregation litigation involving the schools of Dollarway School…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- United States v. Swift & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Lela Mae Haney v. County Board of Education of Sevier County, ArkansasCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1969
- Cato v. ParhamDistrict Court, E.D. Arkansas · 1968
- Tobin, Secretary of Labor v. Little Rock Packing Co. United States v. Little Rock Packing Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1953
- Cato v. ParhamDistrict Court, E.D. Arkansas · 1969
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Wright v. Council of EmporiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- United States v. State of TexasDistrict Court, E.D. Texas · 1970
- Lee v. Macon County Board of EducationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond, VirginiaDistrict Court, E.D. Virginia · 1972
- Pecola Annette Wright v. Council of the City of Emporia and the Members Thereof, and School Board Ofthe City of Emporia and the Members ThereofCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1971
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