Legal Opinion
Horace Willie Montgomery v. Starkville Municipal Separate School District
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 9, 1988No. 87-4478PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:
Appellants, twelve Starkville, Mississippi students, by their parents and next friends, appeal from a portion of the judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi (L.T. Sen-ter, Jr., C.J.) which denied appellants’ claims of racial discrimination by Starkville Municipal Separate School District (the “district”). For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
The Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686, 98 L.Ed. 873 (1954), precipitated a spate of lawsuits alleging racial…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- Georgia State Conference of Branches of Naacp, Mary Alice Covin, Mary Laurant, Sylvia Dennis, and Naomi Tucker v. State of GeorgiaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
- United States v. State of Texas, and Dr. J. W. Edgar, Commissioner of EducationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- Castaneda v. PickardCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981
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3Cited by2 opinions
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