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ROBINSON v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF ST. MARY'S COUNTY

Civ. No. 8780.

143 F.Supp. 481 (1956)

Rose Marie ROBINSON, by Fannie Robinson, her mother and next friend, and others v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF ST. MARY'S COUNTY and G. Edward Thomas, President, May Russell, Vice President, Grace Knight, Robert E. Wigginton, Clarence Leo Young, all constituting the members of The Board of Education of St. Mary's County, Maryland, Miss Lettie M. Dent, County Superintendent.

United States District Court D. Maryland, Civil Division.

July 9, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tucker R. Dearing, Juanita J. Mitchell, and Robert B. Watts, Baltimore, Md., and Jack Greenberg, New York City, for plaintiffs.

H. Vernon Eney, Robert R. Bair and Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Baltimore, Md., and Arthur L. Rysticken, Lexington Park, Md., for defendants.

C. Ferdinand Sybert, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, and Norman P. Ramsey, Deputy Atty. Gen., amici curiae at the request of the court.

THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

Defendants, the Board of Education of St. Mary's County, the individual members thereof, and the County Superintendent of Schools, have moved to dismiss the complaint filed against them by sixty-six Negro children, through their parents and next friends, for a declaratory judgment and an injunction restraining defendants from "requiring these Plaintiffs and all other Negroes of public school age to...

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