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SCOTT v. ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

Civ. A. No. 2865-N.

300 F.Supp. 163 (1969)

Sylvester SCOTT, Ernestine Wilson, Leroy W. Dunbar, Helen Brown, Timothy Mays, Wheeler M. Washington, Alexander S. Anderson, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, Governor Albert P. Brewer, Ex Officio Chairman of Alabama State Board of Education, Montgomery, Alabama; Levi Watkins, Individually and as President of Alabama State College, Montgomery, Alabama; Rose H. Robinson, Individually and as Acting Director of Student Affairs, Alabama State College, Montgomery, Alabama; Simon W. Walker, Individually and as Coordirector of Student Teaching; John B. College, Montgomery, Alabama; Savage J. Whisenhunt, Individually and as Director of Student Teaching, John B. Hall, Individually and as Chairman of the Faculty Discipline Committee; Zelia S. Evans, Individually and as a member of the Ad Hoc Faculty-Student Committee; and B. J. Simms, Individually and as a member of the Ad Hoc Faculty-Student Committee, Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. Alabama, N. D.

May 14, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles S. Conley and William H. Thomas, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs.

Gray, Seay & Langford, Montgomery, Ala., for defendant college officials.

Goodwyn, Smith & Bowman, Montgomery, Ala., for defendant state officials.

ORDER

JOHNSON, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs are approximately 50 students at Alabama State College who were indefinitely suspended or dismissed from college because of their participation, along with a number of nonstudents, in events related to or growing out of "demonstrations" in and around the college dining hall from March 29, 1969, to April 8, 1969. As a result of this activity the college was closed for a period from April 7 to April 21, 1969. Plaintiffs...

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