Legal Opinion
Stell v. Savannah-Chatham County Board of Education
District Court, S.D. Georgia
Decided June 28, 1963No. Civ. A. 1316PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCARLETT, District Judge.
The Issues
This is a class action in the right of the minor Negro plaintiffs as students in public schools of Savannah-Chatham County to enjoin defendant Board of Education from operating a bi-racial school system. Alternately plaintiffs pray a mandatory injunction to compel defendants to submit a plan for the admission of Negro applicants to the white schools now maintained in Savannah-Chatham County.
It was alleged in the complaint that admission to the various public schools of Savannah-Chatham County is determined solely upon the basis of race and color and that…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- McGowan v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Pennoyer v. NeffSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
- Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1911
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3Cited by9 opinions
- United States v. Jefferson County Board of EducationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- United States of America, Donny Brurell Buckley, Intervening v. Board of School Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis, IndianaCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1974
- Monroe v. Board of Commissioners of City of Jackson, Miss.District Court, W.D. Tennessee · 1963
- United States of America and Linda Stout, by Her Father and Next Friend, Blevin Stout v. Jefferson County Board of Education, United States of America v. The Board of Education of the City of Fairfield, United States of America v. The Board of Education of the City of Bessemer, United States of America v. Caddo Parish School Board, United States of America v. The Bossier Parish School Board, Margaret M. Johnson v. Jackson Parish School Board, Yvornia Decarol Banks v. Claiborne Parish School BoardCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- Aluminum Co. of America v. Burlington Truck Lines, Inc.District Court, N.D. Illinois · 1972
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