Legal Opinion
McLaurin v. Columbia Municipal Separate School District
District Court, S.D. Mississippi
Decided October 12, 1976No. Civ. A. No. 2435PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DAN M. RUSSELL, Jr., Chief Judge.
This matter is before this Court for a final judgment on the matter of teacher back pay and plaintiffs’ attorney fees.
Without rehashing the history of this lengthy litigation, it is sufficient to say that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, on April 11, 1973 remanded this action with directions to require the defendant Columbia Municipal Separate School District to offer employment contracts to four black teachers,1 effectively reinstating them in the positions which they occupied prior to their dismissals at the end of the 1969-70 school year or…
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