Gilliam v. School Board of Hopewell

HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge:

The issues tendered by the defendants in this school case have become moot. The appeal will be dismissed for that reason.

As background, reference should first be made to an earlier order from which no appeal was taken.

The Hopewell School Board had been assigning pupils on the basis of geographic zoning, except that members of racial minorities thus assigned to a school were allowed to transfer to some other school in which their race was in the majority. Nine Negro students, in a spurious class action, attacked this method of assignment. In an order dated July 11,…